#deleting social media

[hiperfixationqueen]

Tumblr is now officially my only social media and I feel confident in my decision of deleting everything else, here it feels like home, there it felt like the loud obnoxious club you end up on a Friday night because you can't say no to your friends

[chenxhen]

on deleting social media.

Why I did it:

A simple sentence that encapsulates my reason for going social media free is: To experience the world for myself.

Let me elaborate (a blog is made to fill a space with words after all).

I've always cared, a little too much. Whether it be caring about how others think about me, or just plain caring about others. It stems from a childhood filled with neglect, though it wasn't anyone's fault. It was simply a result of circumstance. My family members are all wonderful people. They just happened to welcome a child who was too observant, too sympathetic, and too quiet. As long as there was any semblance of life in my presence, my first thought would be to care about them. How are they feeling? Why does their face look so sad? This characteristic of mine made me feel extremely lonely. I always felt like no one cared about me the way I do them. Eventually, this made me seek attention, through superficial things. I tried anything I could to affirm my existence. I was always a top student in school, I always dressed well, and any talent that I felt like I lacked, I would look to the best of the best for inspiration and learning.

I felt like an attention seeker.

I wasn't one.

But it felt as if everyone thought I was vain, and cold.

All I wanted was for one person to notice me, and to tell me, "I know exactly how you feel."

As the months and years passed, I felt less and less able to use my words to express myself. I hid behind anonymous blogs, and hidden social media accounts. I didn't want to seem like an attention seeker to those who already knew me. That's not who I am. So, even when those "private" accounts gained success, I didn't tell a single person I personally knew. My friends were jealous of me, and my parents wouldn't understand. I still kept myself hidden.

All of this, made me extremely susceptible to other people's thoughts and opinions of me, when it came to my outward presentation. I had broken myself up into pieces. I didn't know who I was. I could be anything anyone wanted me to be, except who I wanted to be.

After 23 agonizing years of trying to piece myself together, I'm finally letting go of everybody else, and focusing on my own image of me. I left social media with the intention to experience life through my eyes only. I want my own opinions to come to full form. I want my dreams to still feel like dreams - ones that I will charge towards with all my might. I don't want any external influence from single persons, good or bad, unless they are from those I trust.

We are all ever evolving, not into tigers, hawks, CEOs, or celebrities, but into ourselves. I want to be myself.

A little poem:

~ Chenchen I'm a poet and artist, aiming to make the world less of a lonely place.

[warmcupoftea]

2025 is definitely starting off way differently than I thought, and I can't say it's in a bad way.

My resolutions weren't many, but I seem to have created new ones I wasn't expecting.

Deleting my social media off my phone wasn't something I was expecting, especially since it really did have its hooks into me. TIKTOK ESPECIALLY! I would easily spend up to 4 or more hours a day on that thing!!! I really had a problem. The seemingly imminent ban of Tiktok really started this domino effect for me. In my mind I was like "well, it seems like the ban is serious this time, maybe I need to start cutting the cord with it and dealing with whatever emotions that brings now instead of the day of." So I deleted it.

At first, embarrassingly, I found myself immediately swiping over to its former spot in my socials folder to open it, despite it not being there anymore. But as the day went along, I started feeling better quicker than I'd thought. I quit wanting it. To be honest, ditching cigarettes felt similar. Once I'd removed my access to it, I didn't want it. Part of it might be a weird sense of laziness. I don't want to go into the app store and redownload that and re-log in. I don't want to take that trip to the convenience store to spend money on another pack of cigarettes.

Next I deleted things like Bluesky. I just wasn't using that enough to warrant the storage being taken up on my stupid little brick. Twitter came soon after that. That one, I was slightly less addicted to than the cursed clock app. But addicted nonetheless.

Soon enough, I only had Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Discord, and Tumblr.

Tumblr soon replaced Tiktok in terms of my mindless scrolling. To be fair, I had been completely hooked on it since I was 11 going on 12. So it was just going from one addiction to a more familiar one of the past. I'd scroll ALLLLLL the way down until I was seeing old posts from several hours ago, refresh, then repeat.

I realized this was a problem at 2am when melatonin decided it was finished keeping me asleep through the night. I couldn't get back to sleep, so my brain thought its only option was to do the old Tumblr song and dance.

I then asked myself what the hell I was doing scrolling and scrolling and whatever at 2AM. I know it's pretty much normalized nowadays to throw away your sleep schedule for Tumblr and TikTok like a snot rag, but I really just had to ask myself "You're really doing this instead of AT LEAST closing your eyes?" Getting some form of rest? Tumblr is the first thing you reached for?

SO I set up a queue long enough for 50 days, and deleted Tumblr too. Then I said "oh what the hell, let's go with almost everything else too."

SO I got rid of everything except Instagram (it has been impossible for me to become addicted to that app. It really just cannot get me for some reason. I like checking it every now and again, but meh), Discord (I only have that for family and one or two friends to be entirely honest. And even then it's days or even weeks in between replies), and Pinterest (love Pinterest. Social media without the social. Just pretty images).

I didn't expect to love it so much immediately. I wasn't expecting to feel better so soon. Sure, I still swipe for that little blue square to open every now and again. But life is so much better like this. Life is so much better when the Internet is pretty much going back to being that one special place allocated to one area of your house, where you get to leave it pretty much all behind once you step outside that room, outside your house.

I still have YouTube, and plan to stop watching stupid slop content. I want to shift to more beneficial content like self help and learning new things. But that's about it really.

I can't wait to leave more internet behind me.

[cozylittleartblog]

"content creator" is a corporate word.

we are artists.

[rebeccasthoughts]

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[jessiarts]

Was recently reminded by my friend @teeg of just how much info Facebook collects to track you, and I want to share how to make that harder for them with the rest of you.

If you still have facebook/can't get rid of it (for any reason- we're not here to judge today) then you're going to want to clear your off-Meta activity.

You read that right, Meta tracks what you do off it's apps as well. It tracks other apps and websites that you use- whether you connected them to Facebook or not, AND places you visit IRL and when you visited. This includes not just stores and other businesses, but also allegedly includes hotels, schools and hospital/doctors offices. (I'm unfortunately unable to confirm the last three for myself as I didn't look closely at mine before deleting- and it's been years since I've graduated or stayed at a hotel, and months since I've been to a doctor. If anyone cares to confirm in the notes I'll update this post.)

This post will show you how to clear your off-Meta activity. (You'll also want to toggle off Ads data permissions, but I'll make another post about that later.)

First, go to your Profile Icon, then to Settings and Privacy to get to your Settings.

Once in Settings you're going to click See more in Accounts Center. On desktop it should be in a box on the upper-left of the page.

Once in Accounts Center you're going to click Your information and permissions, then Your activity off Meta technologies at the bottom of that window.

Once in the Your activity off Meta technologies window you're going to notice at the bottom three buttons, Disconnect specific activity, Clear previous activity, and Manage future activity.

You're going to want to first clear your previous activity and disconnect future activity. This will also automatically clear any activity that would be under the Disconnect specific activity tab, as it's just for picking and choosing what activity to delete.

An added benefit to this is that it will also clear out some of the data Meta uses for its AI programs- not all, but hey- that's something.

Also, even if you can't delete your Facebook account, I urge you to please delete/uninstall the app from your phone as that's the #1 best way to keep it from tracking you everywhere you go IRL and online. That said, if you delete no other Meta app from your phone- make sure to delete FB messenger- it's literally the worst one, but that's another post, which I'll hopefully get to after the FB ads one I promised above.

Stay safe out there, and remember- fuck Facebook.

[irimori]

[oobbbear]

Me standing here watching Americans praising China like it’s heaven on earth like you do realize the system is beyond fucked there right it’s important to me that you know that 🧍‍♂️

[lesharl-eclair]

strollonso dump 2024

[driftwoodwolf]

I am not immune to re4r leon

new print for otakon maybe

[spookiold]

low res bians

[paldogangsaan]

we take a break from our regularly scheduled programming to check in on our sister city, bludhaven. reports say they are upset and a twitter war with gotham is possible. we await a response from the bat family. more at eleven

[theinsomniacindian]

I just mentioned I was an aplatonic aroace on Pinterest and some idiots responded with 'APLATONIC???' '???' and 'People nowadays just keep making stuff up to make themselves feel special.'

Guess who's never commenting on Pinterest again 😊

[amid-fandoms]

ok thanks for confirming

[anttheswarm]

fish fish fish fish

[dpdailyupdate]

Dan on his (now deleted) Instagram!

30 November 2024

DIP AND PIP USA TRIP PART 2 PHREEDOM BOOGALOO

THANK YOU EVERYONE THAT CAME TO OUR TOUR IT WAS A TRULY TERRIFIC TIME YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND SO IS YOUR LAND GL FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS WE'RE GONNA BOUNCE DOWN UNDER