Hi everyone.
For years, I have been struggling while I was on different social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram).
For example, I didn't a lot of Facebook friends when I was on this platform. When I was posting a comment, a photo or a link, I was always anxious to see if my post would attract lots of likes or comments. If I was not happy with the result, I would delete my post and felt anxious and depressed afterward.
I was also stalking a few cute work colleagues and girls I have been dating in the past. Some of them were maintaining a platonic virtual relationship with me.
Same thing on LinkedIn. Like Facebook, I didn't have a big group of contacts so it felt weird , in the eyes of the possible employer to see my profile with only 30 contacts. And when people sent me a LinkedIn request and I accepted it, I always sent them a private message. I would say that probably more than 85% never answered my message. Their goal was just to add more and more contacts to increase the visibility of their profile.
So, after a few years of that social media crap, I decide to delete all my social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram). It's been a few months now and I feel way happier.
Sure, there are some people who would not be able to contact me. But those people were not my true friends. In a before internet age, I would never have been interested to stay in touch with school colleagues that I knew more than ten or twenty years ago or ex girlfriends or ex work colleagues that left the city to more in another region or another country.
And you, are you on social media? Which one? Do you feel overwhelmed by all that fear of missing out and the fake lifestyle of your "Facebook friends"?
Have you taken some steps to reduce the anxiety of social media on your life? Have you been thinking to delete your accounts? What is stopping you from doing it?
For years, I have been struggling while I was on different social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram).
For example, I didn't a lot of Facebook friends when I was on this platform. When I was posting a comment, a photo or a link, I was always anxious to see if my post would attract lots of likes or comments. If I was not happy with the result, I would delete my post and felt anxious and depressed afterward.
I was also stalking a few cute work colleagues and girls I have been dating in the past. Some of them were maintaining a platonic virtual relationship with me.
Same thing on LinkedIn. Like Facebook, I didn't have a big group of contacts so it felt weird , in the eyes of the possible employer to see my profile with only 30 contacts. And when people sent me a LinkedIn request and I accepted it, I always sent them a private message. I would say that probably more than 85% never answered my message. Their goal was just to add more and more contacts to increase the visibility of their profile.
So, after a few years of that social media crap, I decide to delete all my social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram). It's been a few months now and I feel way happier.
Sure, there are some people who would not be able to contact me. But those people were not my true friends. In a before internet age, I would never have been interested to stay in touch with school colleagues that I knew more than ten or twenty years ago or ex girlfriends or ex work colleagues that left the city to more in another region or another country.
And you, are you on social media? Which one? Do you feel overwhelmed by all that fear of missing out and the fake lifestyle of your "Facebook friends"?
Have you taken some steps to reduce the anxiety of social media on your life? Have you been thinking to delete your accounts? What is stopping you from doing it?