To come off social media today?

[AprMayJune]

I find people uploading montages of the year gone by really irksome for some reason. Even though I’ve had a good year myself I then start comparing. I really don’t know what the point in showcasing it in a video to the world on New Year’s Eve is. Maybe I’m out of touch? AIBU?

Can't recommend it enough! Have been off twitter and Insta for a couple of months. Gave Facebook up a couple of weeks ago. Finally stopped comparing my life to other people and I'm all the better for it

Then come off of social media.

You are not an airplane, your departure doesn't need an announcement.

Just leave.

lol, I know. Were you waiting to use that line? That’s why I’m asking on here, anonymously

@AprMayJune
Mumsnet is also social media!

I agree with you. I came off fb 3 years ago and so do not miss it. It was all the perfect life/family it made me feel awful but maybe that's my issue. When I occasionally check it out and it cements why I left.
I like mn as you can take it or leave it and filter.

Why do you need permission from a bunch of strangers? Do it if you want to, we don’t care to be honest.

Yeah just do what you want and whatever makes you happy OP. YOLO

I've been off social media for several years in the past - now use Facebook and Insta again but only with very limited friends I.e. people I actually know properly and care about.

I'm thinking of doing it to. My fb is full of memorials to dead relatives who died 10+ years ago and twee family photos of wine O'clock and whole adult families and adult kids in matching Xmas pyjamas.

🤣 this could literally be the answer to any question posted on Mumsnet.

Yes, good idea to come off SM and avoid the fake bragging etc. I did it years ago.

My annual round up would just be a montage of trudging to and from from school in the pouring rain while also trying to get a day's work done, interspersed with kids parties and swimming every weekend. Boring as fuck.

I’m on Twitter to keep up with various work and political stuff, but I don’t do Facebook or instagram much at all (have accounts but rarely go on) and I haven’t seen these year-round-up things - sounds awful. Definitely give it a miss if it gets you down.

I have a friend who gets really riled up by all the “perfect family life” posting on FB by people who she knows are actually not having a perfect life at all. She calls it “bloody fakebook”. So I’ve heard about the matching pjs and perfect brunches posts. I couldn’t be doing with it.

No it's not.

It's an anonymous forum.

I enjoy seeing what people have done through the year - particularly friends who live abroad and I don’t see often. I do have a couple of friends who post their entire life on Facebook (complete with balloons for every occasion) but I scroll past those.
I don’t post one myself as, as a PP said, my life is very dull.

Also I’m old and grew up pre-internet, so it’s still ingrained in me that showing off/boasting and banging on about your perfect life is rude and clueless. I still can’t get my head round the SM boasting phenomenon.

Anonymous or not why on earth would you feel the need to ask anyone's opinion

That's really concerning imo, whats your thought process?

This comes up every day, it is by definition but I can't believe anyone thinks it's the same as Facebook etc

This video some up why I deactivated all my social media accounts!

Addicted to Online Attention!

I look at Instagram purely for home decor , however i can see how easy it is to get hooked into becoming envious of a lifestyle that is very likely not all it seems.
Two of the posters i watch only -( i never comment )are going through marriage breakups so clearly the images they portray of their rosy looking lives are not real and both have said this will be their last xmas in this (enviously gorgeously decorated for xmas) house.
Anyone can set things up to give the impression of 'loveliness' with a few well placed items in a tidy corner ,good light ,imagination and a decent camera.
Look at the images for what they probably are , a visual escape for a little while like a magazine.
Remember that they probably have the same shitty and mundane things going on as you do , they just fake the reality and show things in a different light.