Social media annoying

[icecreamcart]

Does social media get on everyone else's nerves?

I used to love social media. Always posting photos etc. recently I can see it's just people showing off and has no basis on real life.

I'm nervous coming off it. Don't know why. Probably incase I miss something or feel left out.

I find FB useful. It's an easy way to keep in touch with friends and extended family who live a long distance from you. Local groups are useful for advice on tradesmen and services. Marketplace is a good place to get rid of stuff you no longer need.

I went years after deleting fb and didn’t miss the social media aspect but not one of my so called friends bothered to contact me in real life and after trying to initiate conversations with them using traditional means I got sick of “oh I just posted it all on fb go read it there” or non responses to invites to meet up. My family do all the kids party or family events invites on fb so I’ve missed all the kids parties because none of them call to let me know when the parties were and even engagements/weddings
and pregnancies.

I hated finding out things about people I quite liked in real life socially that would totally change my opinion of them due to sm posts (eg closet racists, sexists etc)

I don’t have FOMO but not being on social media did make me realise how little effort people put into being friends offline now. I did try to do it old school with phone calls, texts and trying to arrange to meet up but it all fizzled out when nobody really bothered and expected me to be keeping up to date with their every post online instead if talking and communicating like humans were designed to.

I ended up going back when real life loneliness got the better of me and so many people were responding to my return with “we’ve missed you” “where have you been?”
Its all bullshit but at least I can pretend I sometimes have friends.

@icecreamcart that probably came off more dramatic that I intended 😂It just sucked up all my time and I wasn't allowed to speak my mind without getting shredded. People didn't like 'friending' me because I had like 10 'friends' on there, whereas most people on there had 100+. It was all just superficial nonsense and I preferred real life chatter to bigged up and dare I say, faked chatter online. The best type of friends you can have are ones you've met and spend time with in real life. Not avatars on a screen.