does deleting your socials really make you feel better?
With an air of newfound liberation, I stood before my circle of friends, a sense of enlightenment coursing through me like a serene mountain stream. It was akin to the moment when a seasoned monk decides to forsake the distractions of the world and retreat into the tranquil seclusion of the mountains. "In times of dire need," I declared with confidence, "you need only reach out to me through my phone number." Yet, little did they know, they would never have to invoke this decree, for the very next day, I would diligently reinstall all that I had temporarily shed. When doing research for this blog, I realised the narrative “I quit social media and it changed my life” is having such great traction everywhere. There are thousands of websites talking about it, thousands of blog posts on Medium and Substack, and probably millions of Facebook posts telling their friends that they’re quitting social media. I think that the common theme is that people treat social media like crack: they reach
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