Technology/Social Media ruining my life

[funinthesun19]

I’m so sorry if this all sounds trivial, but to me it’s really not.
I’ve posted on this board before about my mental health, but haven’t really plucked up the courage to talk about the title before.

It’s ruining my life. I have a very unhealthy obsession with my phone breaking and then I lose all my photos, or all of my accounts being hacked and then I lose all of the back ups too. I’m constantly checking my phone to make sure it’s ok, same with Facebook and Google.

During lockdown, I was overcome with unbearable nervousness with the online work. I couldn’t get anything working and I was worried about messing my phone up by downloading things.

Facebook is making me worse still. I have so much on my account now but I don’t want an online presence anymore. I know you can download everything and delete it, but doing things like this makes me nervous too. I don’t even have a device with a big enough memory to do this.

I feel so ridiculous posting this and I’m actually embarrassed. Is anyone else worried about stuff like this? It’s really affecting my quality of life.

Not to this extreme, no.

But Facebook for me was very toxic and was creating thoughts/behaviours for me that I didn't like and made me unhappy.

I downloaded all my Facebook photos to Google Photos on my phone and deleted Facebook and now that I have google photos I don't worry about losing photos. I also have an Instagram account as I like to keep special photos somewhere but I've honestly never been happier after coming off Facebook.

I’m going to do the same I think with my Facebook photos and then get rid. I think if I get rid of Facebook it will be a really good start.

I wish I’d have done it a long time ago.

Take the plunge and get rid of Facebook. You will be so happy you did.

I have this kind of anxiety about loosing photos etc too. I am not a fan of FB so don't post anything on there or any other social media site. I send photos to loved ones privately via whatsapp or messenger app. I too use Google photos which is great and free but I also worry about something going wrong with the app and me loosing everything. I prefer an android phone rather than an iPhone as they have the extra back up of photos also being stored on an SD card and not just to a cloud storage as with iPhones. I also transfer photos to external hard drive every now and then for extra back up. maybe you could do this too.

Reduce or stop using social media. That's what I would recommend. We waste so much time staring at useless and unnecessary stuff on our phones. Find something productive or healthy to spend your time on. Is there something you would like to achieve? Use the time to do something more worthwhile.