To give up on Facebook and Instagram

[Nigellasrockyroad]

Does anybody actually see anything on their timelines from people they know?
it’s just endless suggested posts or people who you don’t know, showing you how to do things.
Earlier today I had a suggested post that showed me how to dry a duvet over a bannister.
🙄
I joined both of these platforms to see posts from my friends that lived in different countries. No chance of seeing their updates now, but I can see how a influencer has painted her walls a different colour 🙄

I know in my heart of hearts that deleting social media entirely would be for the best

(the time and emotional energy saved from snooping on crushes alone...😳)

But I'm so deep in its cutches and it feels so....final and serious to sever the whole thing...

I deleted Instagram, Facebook and Twitter and swapped to Tiktok. At least now I ONLY see the content I'm interested in and the people I follow. No annoying adverts or influencers with their bullshit.

Gradually trying to get the rest of my family & friends away from those platforms.

@BlueCupOrangeCup I recently deleted Twitter . It hurt, but I needed to do it.

I got rid of all of them a few months ago the ago. Best thing I ever did. They just annoyed me anyway. No more brain rot.

I have quite a lot of comedy on my instagram, which I enjoy. And local gossip on my fb, which I also enjoy
The endless scrolling is draining though - I'm addicted to my phone. I know I'd be far happier reading but I just can't make myself step away. I did delete twitter and am better for it though.

I only use Facebook anonymously with no friends at all. It's for health reasons - so I can ask questions on certain groups occasionally.

I feel significantly better without any of it. It's a pit of shit. The damage this stuff does is quite apparent to me. The level of cruelty by adults and kids even worse. I want my kids nowhere near this shit. I hate it.

If it wasn’t for the dog charity I support I would get rid of Facebook. Instagram I find quite informative but again it shows you what it wants to.

I deleted my Facebook a couple of years ago - and I genuinely feel much happier off it than I did on it.

It's mostly used by two types of people these days. The miserable sods who have to moan and complain over the most boring/trivial stuff in local groups (fireworks, bad parking, someone playing loud music etc), and show offs who want everyone to know how great their life is.

I gave up insta about 2 years ago and don't miss it at all. I've been on and off Facebook during that time. It's annoyingly useful for local groups, school and Facebook marketplace. I usually re-download it for something in particular, get totally hooked for a few days, get annoyed with myself and then delete it again.
So addictive.
So is mumsnet! I go through cycles with mumsnet too.

I get cross that the "notifications" on FB are no longer just people responding to my posts but random shite. As i live abroad I have relied on FB for years as a main way of keeping up with family and friends, but PPs are correct that it's now filled with ads and other unwanted content. Don't know how to best move forward.

Facebook is truly dreadful with weird AI generated posts and suggestions and I am thinking of doing the same. All I want is to see what my friends are saying and what's happening in the local community. I see virtually no posts from friends and the local community is increasingly full of people thinking someone will pay to take away all their shite, "Sofa with just a few small rips and stains, need gone today as new one getting delivered, £50" or people shoehorning their own agenda into everything (Deliveroo drivers on the pavement - the SNP government caused them, Christmas lights funded by local businesses - why can't they spend the money repairing potholes). It's depressing and boring.

I haven’t deleted any of them but deleted the apps and now no longer really go on any of them. Like you I just find it full of things I don’t want to see.

It's your call
Of course you wouldn't be unreasonable if you wanted to do it.

I deleted the lot - Facebook, instagram etc, and it is incredibly freeing.
I don't start my day by being depressed by stupid, negative rubbish, and I definitely get more done. A quick look a mumsnet every few days, and other than that, I use my phone for banking etc and to keep in touch with my DC.
I'm also too old to care about missing out lol.

I deleted instagram back in April and it’s the BEST thing I ever did. I really recommend it. Even if you don’t think your brain is being tarnished from social media, it probably is. I am an anxious person anyway but instagram made it 10x worse. I can’t describe it but I feel so much better knowing that I’m not going to waste anymore time scrolling on instagram. I don’t feel the need to take a picture of my friends or my food, or my holidays. I don’t feel the need to ‘monitor’s

Granted, there are people that can healthily use instagram and not post anything, but for me it just consumed a lot of my time.

I still have Facebook but mainly to sell items / or post in the local community pages etc.

I’ve only recently joined Mumsnet (and I’m not even a Mum) and I still feel like it’s slightly unhealthy but it’s good for advice / opinions.

My partner doesn’t have any social media either, and I just find it a whole less cringe!

You are not being unreasonable. It's just streaming reels of random rubbish and adverts. I'm getting off as well.

I came off FB five years ago. Went into my account last week (someone had passed away and I wanted to see the comments!) and all I got was adverts. Not a post from anyone I know!
My OH was looking at climbing gear yesterday and my Insta was flooded with it today.
It’s just awful. As for Twitter… EM can beggar off. He’d destroyed it. It used to be great fun seeing Brian McFadden lose his rag back in the day. Or people from X Factor arguing. Now it’s full of the tin hat brigade!

It's pretty bad on FB alright, I can't see people enjoying that. I had it mainly as I have family all over the world, I also come from a very large family so enjoyed them posting on FB, as well as my friends because I don't get out too much recently but the reels and ads are awful and trying to find posts is impossible, last week I was reading something a friend had put up and smack bang in the middle was a massive ad and it just annoyed me so much that I deleted FB completely.

I got rid of twitter several years ago, instagram earlier this year and have never had ticktock. I’m staying on FB until DD2 finishes school next summer as it’s handy for school activities/dates etc and will then be coming off that.

Found instragram to be the worst for chipping away at my self esteem and don’t miss it at all.

I’m not the only one then!

I think they will probably fizzle out in the next few years, just like friends reunited did. Shame really. They were good at the start. I’m hoping that influencers will also disappear. I’m sick of people I don’t know popping up on my sm, trying to flog me cheap, Chinese made tat. Never got into TikTok. I’m probably too old for that 😀

Does anybody actually see anything on their timelines from people they know?

yes, lots from friends & family. But mostly it's groups I engage with (mutual interest groups).

I know what you mean! If you select Friends then Feeds it shows you friends posts (but still some ads in between!). However, I've found the majority of my friends don't really post much anymore, myself included. I only really use it like a diary for myself these days and some of the groups are handy. Never done twitter or Instagram and never will!

I deleted social media years ago, it was the best thing I did.
If I want to know what people are up to I ask them face to face.
The moment that made me leave it was when I bumped into 2 different people off my Facebook who I hadn’t seen in real life for about 15 years and they were asking me questions and speaking to my child like they were fully up to date with my life and knew my child, and I realised it was because of using Facebook like a bit of a diary. It woke me up to how stupid it was to do that and how vulnerable it makes you.