Most thorough ways to delete social media?

[Walilamdzi]

I think social media contributes to my depression and I was wondering what the best way is to thoroughly remove it. I was thinking of changing name to make anything still linked to my account (old messages) less accessible and manually removing stuff. Any suggestions?

 

[tomz323]

I'm pretty sure you can just delete right? I know it takes 30 days on facebook. But yes social media is horrible, something about seeing others happy and in love... a major factor in my depression at least.

 

[Worthless_nobody]

I highly recommend deleting all social media. I have deleted all forms of social media and it was a great descision. Seeing others having wonderful fun successful lives and being loved was an un necessary torture. I already want to go I dont need the fact that I'm a lonely unloved looser shoved in my face plus I had no friends on there who cared. The few genuine people in my life contact me elsewhere. I even deleted the email addresses associated with the accounts to make sure it was all gone.

 

[EddieAllenPoe]

I can relate to hating social media. I've suspended, deleted, and reenabled my accounts. Then I suspended, deleted, and reenabled them all over again. I've learned to just let them stay open and not use them. Even opening Facebook makes me feel avoidant and paranoid. I wish I could just use them normally and set it down but I can't. It also sucks to feel like I don't really have anything to post or talk about. The funny thing is I think this might be everybody's experience but some people have just learned to keep using it. That's why they still post stupid memes all day. I don't know. Some people say the same kind of thing about drinking alcohol. I've learned the hard way over and over that I'm not a person who can just drink normally. Everybody else might be able to but I don't seem to be everybody.