The only social media platform I use, besides forums, is YouTube. I never post videos or comments anymore because everyone there is looking for a fight. Instead, I use it like television on demand and keep track of my favorite content.
I downgraded my smart phone to a flip phone in recent months because it was proving too much of a distraction for me and also because I got an ad for the Canadian armed forces after having a conversation with a man at a bar about his life in the air force. That freaked me out because I have a habit of talking to myself when I'm alone at home.
The thing is, the internet is becoming less and less fun now. Going on the internet for the first time back in the early 2000s was like entering Willy Wonka's chocolate factory with all of the information, forums, games, cartoons, and easy inappropriate contentography. Nowadays it's like a meth lab in Newfoundland with all sorts of messed up inappropriate contentography, political strife, and people screaming at each other over trivial things.
For the first time in my life, real life is becoming much more fun than the internet. Joining a church, socializing at the bar, and hanging out with real people vastly improved my mental health and if I could do life all over again knowing what I know now, I'd spend much, much more time out in the real world.
