reesespiecesaregood
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- Dec 27, 2019
- 45
I'm the generation that grew up on the rise of social media. Everyone went to myspace, facebook, then instagram, twitter, etc, during my most formative years. And we never looked back. But damn that shit can be toxic.
I deleted my main forms of social media the other day. Like completely deleted. I have 30 days to get them back if I want to before they disappear forever, but idk about it. I know it's superficial, but I felt like with out them I wasn't a fully functional young adult. But now, I just feel freer. Less clouded. I never noticed how much time I wasted on those things that really hurt my self esteem in detrimental ways. It helped me keep up with friends, sure, but it also shouldn't be the only way I can do that. That time on sm could've been used for better things, like almost anything else lol. But it's a damn addiction of our modern age. Hopefully I keep this willpower to stay off.
Ironically, I'm considering getting back into a job search for what I went to college for: digital marketing/social media marketing. But maybe that's the ultimate test? Like if I can be on that shit and only utilize it for monetary reasons, it won't control me so much in my own life.
I definitely know there's positives to social media, like bringing people together who previously wouldn't have been (communities) - kinda like this one! - and the ability to learn about so much more than ever possible. Social media introduced me to weightlifting and fitness/wellness that really helped my depression a couple years ago. So maybe I was just using it wrong for the majority of the time. But it's hard to know what's good for you in the moment, when all you're doing is endlessly scrolling and receiving a ridiculous amount of information constantly. Just absorbing everything you see. Good, funny, bad, toxic. It's all there. So I definitely think it's better to let go of from my personal life for now.
P.s.: I'm a girl, so in my opinion instagram really realllly set that need to be perfect to an all time high. Not that guys don't have that same problem with social media. The constant subconcious comparison to everyone else's lives. But the age of insta-models has made standards, especially for girls, 10x more unreachable. Ugh. Can't people just be average and content? ;p
I deleted my main forms of social media the other day. Like completely deleted. I have 30 days to get them back if I want to before they disappear forever, but idk about it. I know it's superficial, but I felt like with out them I wasn't a fully functional young adult. But now, I just feel freer. Less clouded. I never noticed how much time I wasted on those things that really hurt my self esteem in detrimental ways. It helped me keep up with friends, sure, but it also shouldn't be the only way I can do that. That time on sm could've been used for better things, like almost anything else lol. But it's a damn addiction of our modern age. Hopefully I keep this willpower to stay off.
Ironically, I'm considering getting back into a job search for what I went to college for: digital marketing/social media marketing. But maybe that's the ultimate test? Like if I can be on that shit and only utilize it for monetary reasons, it won't control me so much in my own life.
I definitely know there's positives to social media, like bringing people together who previously wouldn't have been (communities) - kinda like this one! - and the ability to learn about so much more than ever possible. Social media introduced me to weightlifting and fitness/wellness that really helped my depression a couple years ago. So maybe I was just using it wrong for the majority of the time. But it's hard to know what's good for you in the moment, when all you're doing is endlessly scrolling and receiving a ridiculous amount of information constantly. Just absorbing everything you see. Good, funny, bad, toxic. It's all there. So I definitely think it's better to let go of from my personal life for now.
P.s.: I'm a girl, so in my opinion instagram really realllly set that need to be perfect to an all time high. Not that guys don't have that same problem with social media. The constant subconcious comparison to everyone else's lives. But the age of insta-models has made standards, especially for girls, 10x more unreachable. Ugh. Can't people just be average and content? ;p