To just not really want to post on Social media anymore

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Not sure why?

I always have done in the past, not excessively, but fairly regularly-Fb & Instagram…it was mainly as a sort of photo diary of Dd and things we’ve done as a family with dates etc…but now I just feel so meh about it 🤷🏻‍♀️
I would’ve normally put some Christmas bits up by now, but haven’t and don’t really feel the need/want to. It feels liberating and is making me question why I don’t want to and why I did before.
Have to say I feel a bit down at present so I am a person who probably posts more when happy.
But looking at endless Christmas pics and videos, I just feel a bit ‘Why?’ 🤷🏻‍♀️
I’m becoming so bored by it all, is anyone else?

Errr, then don't?!

It's kind of ironic that you started a thread about it instead.

Neither do I, so I stopped doing so a couple of years ago. I still take photos, they live in a Google Drive. It’s fine!

@PurpleButterflyWings Yes, I don’t think I will. I wanted to know if anyone else has been slowly becoming less interested by it all recently when they used/enjoyed it all before

I know exactly how you feel. Fb used to be my daily diary. I can’t be bothered anymore.

I often feel like this about my personal and work profiles and pages. Everyone is posting non-stop, the content is 1) rarely original, and 2) often repetitive.

Honestly it’s so liberating not posting about everything. Suddenly when you do put something up, it becomes meaningful and worth something because it will come from a nice bigger occasion or achievement, not just a photograph of your Mother’s Day breakfast or little Johnny’s star of the week award. Which EVERYONE puts up.

@Reindeersnooker What do you mean?
MN is the only place I seem to like coming onto nowadays, I so loved IG etc before

@HappiCamper When did you start becoming bored with it?

@AkoraEdelherb It is all v repetitive, I used to enjoy looking at it all though, but now seems so dull. Wondering if something has changed or if I just have

I haven't taken a single photo or posted anything of social media at all this Christmas. I've totally lost interest.

I know what you mean OP. I do enjoy some people's facebook posts when it seems like they just want to share their genuine joy at fun events in their life. Often though it seems more about image crafting and posed shots. It does feel quite hollow and attnetion seeky so I see why you've gone off it.

If you don't want to post on social media why have you just posted on social media about not wanting to post on social media?

@Flandango I meant Facebook and Instagram-photos about events in my life etc..not a discussion forum

I'm similar OP. I used to share on FB, not every day or even every week...but you know Christmas/Easter/birthdays/holidays etc. But then a couple of years ago I started to get a bit bored of posting ...altho I do still like to see what other people are up to. Also I think it's coincided with my kids starting to get older...I was starting to feel a bit funny that they might think it was ",normal" for people to have their childhood documented online. Not that it's abnormal (I don't judge people who use SM for example) but we didn't all have this in our childhoods. Id've hated to become a teen and find out that so much of my childhood had been put online for my parents friends to "like" .

anyway think I've forgot my point now 😁 but basically I felt like I was outgrowing it and my family were outgrowing it...not that I think other people are childish or anything for using it either...just how I felt.

@ChristmasBallBall Ive taken pics, not loads, but not posted..I can’t be bothered either but no idea why

@RegularNameChangerVersion21 I used to enjoy looking at it, now I still
go on but then come off and wonder why I bothered, it’s such a change for me, so i’m wondering if people are just losing interest or it’s just the way I’m feeling.

I’m the same. I have a load of Facebook memories from previous Christmases which is really nice but this year I just didn’t post anything at all. I feel really distant from everyone on my friends list now. I don’t know who I’d be posting it for anymore.

Same!!!

i increasingly feel like my average (and happy) life is just for my consumption.

With you OP. I too was a prolific FB poster, I used to document my life on it. I’ve not taken a single photo today, we’ve been far too busy enjoying Christmas to pose for SM.

I'm feeling the same. I don't know why I post. I like to see it as a diary of sorts. Memories. But it's so competitive now and I don't like the thought of everyone seeing and judging my business. It's quite additive so we'll see how we go but I feel a social media reduction is a good New Year's resolution.

@Loopyloooooo Yes, I’m starting to feel a bit weird, sort of guilty about putting pics of Dd up, I so loved to before. I wonder if I could somehow securely save them all somewhere from Instagram and perhaps shut my account for a bit (don’t want to lose the pics)
Fb generally brings up nothing of interest really, aside from some groups/forums, but I do use messenger for friends

I never have and I don’t look at other people’s either. I don’t think we’re built to life lives with lots of exposure.

I know someone who used to communicate with the partner they shared a house with on Facebook - why?

I stopped a few years ago, mainly because some of the idiotic crap I read used to wind me up (I'm fairly easy-going, normally). In the end, I just stopped cold turkey. I don't miss it one bit, and all the people who need to contact me have my number, and vice-versa.

Me too.

I can’t see the point.

My life is quite average. Few highlights here and there but I don’t feel compelled to share any of it like before.

Im enjoying drifting into obscurity. And I love it!

I’m not interested in likes or comments. All seems a bit vacuous and pointless.

I haven’t posted in a year and a half and it’s liberating!

Ive taken back a large portion of my brain that used to think about all sorts of moments and situations and think “oh I could load this up to Facebook”

Never ever happens now 😁winning!

I definitely used mine as a sort of diary, I post much less nowadays, perhaps a pic every fortnight and rarely do stories now
I’d need to keep in touch with pals so perhaps wouldn’t come off a together, it just seems the same old same old, whereas I used to see quite interesting posts on Instagram
If anyone has come off, how does it feel?