How to wean yourself off of social media

I was a Twitter / X user, but I was finding it to become such a toxic place that was becoming less desirable, and I was spending less time on it. So I actually embraced that as a technique. I did the same thing with Facebook as well.

I accepted friend request requests and sent them to every blue eyed, red faced mega nut available. I approved every friend request, even though they were obviously scammers and spammers. I basically enshittified my experience on each app.

It didn’t take long before I was not only not using those apps, I was avoiding them. I broke them. They’re gross. And I don’t want to go through the work of rebuilding an account.

So those apps are dead to me. I deleted my X account, and then created a dummy account so I want to read a link to something I can, but the dummy account is just generic, no friends, no follows.

I still have Facebook, but it’s become useless, there’s a little reason for me to keep it around

Time spent on those apps has gone from an embarrassingly high number to 20 minutes per week for Facebook