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due to the addictive nature of it (SM), life w/o social media is just that - life minus social media. The quicker one leaves it, the longer they stay away from it (for me, forever), and the more things one experiences when not pulled in, distracted by it, is a 100% net positive.
So many people have gotten used to it. One of the only reasons I keep my (deactivated) smartphone is because I need to pay for my dorm laundry for it. That, and my mother quite frankly begged me to keep using it to stay in touch with her, rather than the flip phone I bought myself.
We've grown so reliant on them to fulfill certain tasks, that they cannot be done any other way.