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I stopped using Facebook, Twitter and Instagram a long time ago - it helps that I generally don't like people knowing my business, or feeling weird when I try to take pics with my phone. I've been using notebooks again, and it seems to help clear my mind a bit without doomscrolling. Tumblr is probably the only SM I go onto, and even then it's just to update my theme and fill in my queue. I guess it helps that the Tumblr algorithm is much more bearable than the Twitter one.
But I do wonder often how life would be like now if social media hadn't become the behemoth that it is today. I grew up inbetween the era of no internet, stranger danger, and the conglomerate monster that is SM. How would things be different? Or the same? Who knows...
I usually only use Instagram to keep in touch with my high school friends and Discord to keep in touch with my college Clubs. I mainly use tumblr to keep in touch with an old friend from DeviantArt.
I can't help but feel there is a supremely simplistic appeal to using sites like these ones.