It’s Time to Leave Social Media: Here’s WhyBySydney Butler-June 9, 2018.326 You’d be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t use any social media format. Older people are gravitating toward Facebook while younger users today seem to prefer something like Instagram and Snapchat. There are plenty of reasons why social media can be appealing when you’re a social person. However, as recent privacy controversies have shown social media may not be the social good its bright colors might mean and welcoming gui. Actually the best thing you could do is drop all social media outlets from your life. Drastic Sound? Let me just explain.
A Million Headaches of Privacy
.327 This is the main argument against social media. You are giving away the company providing the social media service with personal information. Which they can then use for ads targeting you or reselling the data to other third parties. Even worse giants of social media can get hacked and all that information gets into the hands of people you don’t really want access to. Not even taking a hack. Cambridge Analyticasimply used holes in the Facebook Api public to scrap Users ‘ personal information. Helping them to build targeted profiles that will influence voting behaviour. You have to ask yourself if what social media does is worth what you need to give up in return for.
It’s not perfect for your mental health.328.328 It requires constant effort to maintain good mental health. The personal health is an important part of that. Bearing in mind what kind of things you are exposing yourself to. Social media holds all manner of threats to your mentality. For example, Twitter has developed a propensity to become fairly toxic. If the real world were working the way Twitter is doing we would always be at war. Locations such as Snapchat and Instagram risk causing depression. Why? For what? It has to do with the way people show up. Most of the people want to project their own good image. On Instagram, when we share things it appears to be curated so that only positive things are seen. Of course you are conscious that your life is not fine. There are lots of bad things happening that you’re not posting on social media. At the same time, you’re only seeing the positive things others share. Because part of how we determine our self-worth happens by comparing ourselves with others, when you inevitably lose out against the ideal selves of your social media friend, you may feel rather low. You Can Lose Your Job (or Worse)
.329 Whenever you do something it is a good idea to think about the risks involved and the benefits. It’s nice to get locked up to have a drink and drive beyond the limit. All have bad days. Times when you say you mean something. At some point we all become embarrassed or say the wrong thing. This kind of thing could happen before social media, and fade from memory. Web isn’t forgetting. A poorly worded Facebook post or not as funny as that can get you shot very quickly.
If you really can be a little more circumspect about Twitter SafetyInstagram SafetyLinkedInusers. You can live a social media-free life with a little planning and a change in attitude, and be happier for it.