Dear Ty:

Congratulations for taking the steps to living a genuine life and removing yourself from social media. My only participation in social media is right here, on tiny buddha. Looking forward to read more from you!

anita

Dear Ty:

You are welcome. I like your selectiveness about what you watch on YouTube. I wonder if any other member will reply to you with their sharing of not using social media, particularly Facebook. You and I may be the only ones….?

anita

Congratulions! About 2 years ago, I took a 1 year break from social media (joined again in 8/2016). It was a great time to just reconnect with myself and go back to the “old fashioned” way of making plans: texting and phone calls! 🙂

I recently realized that social media (mostly Facebook) perpetuates my anxiety about relationships, so I’m taking another break beginning this weekend- I’ve already announced it to my friends. I’ll look at it occasionally to see if there are events I want to attend, but other than that, I won’t be using it as a means for entertainment anymore. Now that I’ve fully realized the extent to which Facebook highlights my insecurities, letting go of it seems much easier.

I fully applaud your decision to jump off social media for a while! Please post soon about how it’s going 🙂

I do not go on Facebook anymore, as it makes me feel like the whole world of friends/family  are having magnificent vacations, lovey-dovey absolutely cutesy relationships and the posting of  their food on their table isn’t relevant to me. I also found that people from high school ( over 40 years ago) would reach out and want to be “friends”. They seemed to have forgotten how awful they were to me in school, so it kind of creeps me out. It seems to be such an superficial thing!

If someone moans about a bad time or similiar, bunches of “friends” say how wonderful the complainer is, and seems like it is all false accolades in my opinion.  Birthdays are the worst- if you cant text, call or email me, dont fill the FB mailbox up with the mindless and 30 second focus of Happy birthday, etc… For an occasion I take the time to get a gift, get a card, mail it and then get a 30 second ” thanks for the gift! Fred loves it!”  on FB? Sorry for the ranting, I feel absolutely more peaceful and focused without FB. I treasure the friends/family who make the call and I can hear their voice, or email me on my private email. Must just be an old fuddy-duddy these days!

TY

I don’t use Facebook any more – it’s mind blowing just how parasitic it can become, how I wanted to get likes on everything I uploaded, adding people I had only ever spoken to once even though we could pass each other in the corridor and not glance at each other. It just seemed really artificial and vapid. People only posting the really good bits of their life and it projects this idea that everybody has this seemingly perfect life. Nobody wants to read about negativity or “people being real” and nobody wants to read lengthy posts about “real stuff”. I just feel like Facebook has made people more shallow and disconnected, and it’s almost like it has made all of us have a really short attention span.

Facebook is something I avoid like the plague – I don’t want to connect with idiot former classmates or my idiot relatives, I don’t want to add people I hardly even speak to anyway and then trawl through endless status updates reading about how much they love watching ‘The Only Way Is Essex’ and I have no desire to put up with the subsequent whiny messages of “Why haven’t you added me? Why have you unfriended me? Why don’t you like me?” (Probably because I can’t stand you in real life?)

The only social media platform I use is Instagram but that’s purely to promote my art business. I hate the fact that to make a Facebook page for my art business as well, I need to make a personal Facebook page when I really don’t want one.

Joe

Facebook gets too familiar with your other online activities. I use it as a means to connect with my Life Coach and reach out to a small group of folks that read my stuff on a Member Group. Other than that I find it frustrating and full of folks that post first and think second. As for Instagram you can find me there, under this handle, as I live mobile and promote the mobile lifestyle to others who are interested in fleeing the cubicle for life under the stars.

I think realizing that it is time to shut those medias off is a big step at seeing you were once at a particular place in your life and are now moving towards something higher. It’s a recognition that life isn’t posts and cute cat videos. When we choose to live life outside of the box we’ll find few that can understand our words and actions, and of those who do we must reach back and bring them along.

Good for you, and good for the person you are becoming.

All the best,

Good job, Ty!!! It is sometimes difficult to realise what might be pulling us down or has the potential to do so!

I chose to delete my Facebook account back in 2011 and never looked back nor has there been a moment I felt that I am missing out on something, except for the informational content which is usually not on news website!

Love & Light!