<story><title>I deleted all my social media 3 yrs ago and I hardcore regret it everyday</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/nosurf/comments/107osuu/i_deleted_all_my_social_media_about_3_years_ago/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>satysin</author><text>This person is just making things far more complicated than they need to be.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; cant make a new Facebook in 2023 and add all these old friends. Literally psychotic behavior.&lt;p&gt;There is nothing &amp;quot;psychotic&amp;quot; about signing up again and adding some old friends again. Many people leave social media and return when they feel more comfortable. They are the only thing blocking themselves from the social interaction they are missing.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I live alone by choice with my cat and separate from my parents and all my siblings and yeah we all text but it’s still nice seeing social media posts from everyone. Maybe I’d feel less isolated. I also feel left out when they talk about some stuff they see.&lt;p&gt;Again they isolate themselves by choice then complain about isolation. There is nothing stopping them from socialising. Nobody has &amp;#x27;ghosted&amp;#x27; them or excluded them from anything.&lt;p&gt;Seems to me like this is somebody that took things too far with a total cut of all social contact rather than just removing some of the more toxic elements of social media from their lives.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or TikTok because I didn&amp;#x27;t enjoy the never ending stream of content but I still use reddit, Hacker News (obviously), Discord and Slack for keeping in touch with &amp;quot;online friends&amp;quot;. You don&amp;#x27;t have to go to absolute zero for social media to cut out the majority of the toxic stuff but still get some of the benefits from it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>satysin</author><text>Having now read through some of this persons comments on the thread it seems a huge area of regret for them is that they didn&amp;#x27;t export the content before they closed their accounts.&lt;p&gt;That I can understand is upsetting much like not having backups of family photos and the drive dying. Why they did not export their content I do not know. Facebook, etc. have all had &amp;quot;check out&amp;quot; functionality for many years now, all before the pandemic hit.&lt;p&gt;Seems they rushed into closing their accounts rather than exporting and backing all those memories up and without any kind of plan on what to do to fill the social void it would great. As a commenter wrote in reply to them &amp;quot;I gave up eating McDonald&amp;#x27;s everyday but now I have no food.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>I deleted all my social media 3 yrs ago and I hardcore regret it everyday</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/nosurf/comments/107osuu/i_deleted_all_my_social_media_about_3_years_ago/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>satysin</author><text>This person is just making things far more complicated than they need to be.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; cant make a new Facebook in 2023 and add all these old friends. Literally psychotic behavior.&lt;p&gt;There is nothing &amp;quot;psychotic&amp;quot; about signing up again and adding some old friends again. Many people leave social media and return when they feel more comfortable. They are the only thing blocking themselves from the social interaction they are missing.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I live alone by choice with my cat and separate from my parents and all my siblings and yeah we all text but it’s still nice seeing social media posts from everyone. Maybe I’d feel less isolated. I also feel left out when they talk about some stuff they see.&lt;p&gt;Again they isolate themselves by choice then complain about isolation. There is nothing stopping them from socialising. Nobody has &amp;#x27;ghosted&amp;#x27; them or excluded them from anything.&lt;p&gt;Seems to me like this is somebody that took things too far with a total cut of all social contact rather than just removing some of the more toxic elements of social media from their lives.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or TikTok because I didn&amp;#x27;t enjoy the never ending stream of content but I still use reddit, Hacker News (obviously), Discord and Slack for keeping in touch with &amp;quot;online friends&amp;quot;. You don&amp;#x27;t have to go to absolute zero for social media to cut out the majority of the toxic stuff but still get some of the benefits from it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shusaku</author><text>&amp;gt; There is nothing &amp;quot;psychotic&amp;quot; about signing up again and adding some old friends again&lt;p&gt;Maybe not so extreme but if an old friend added me on Facebook I would immediately assume they want something…&lt;p&gt;But I have to say, I still have Facebook on my phone, and open it from time to time, and it’s pretty barren. I think the consensus among my peers is that sharing something on Facebook is signaling that you’re socially undesirable… so if he signs up again, I think he will find it doesn’t help at all.&lt;p&gt;(Though I still like Facebook as a contact list of last resort)</text></comment>