One Year Ago, I Deleted All My Social Media Accounts
It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
One year ago, amidst privacy concerns about tech giants and a recent breakup with a Snapchat addict, I permanently deleted all my social media.
After living without social media for one year, I can tell you, with complete confidence, that life is better without social media.
At least, my life is, in a variety of ways:
My Relationships Are Better
The number one fear people have about quitting social media — the number one fear I had about quitting social media — is the fear that quitting will make your relationships worse. People are afraid without social media to help them keep in touch with distant friends and family, those connections will fade.
I’m here, live from no-social-media-land, to tell you not only did quitting social media not make my relationships worse, it made them better.
After I deleted my social media, the amount of time I spent actually hanging out with my friends went way up. Now that I wasn’t able to fall back on social media, circumstances forced me to text people and set up time to hang out. Before I knew it, I’d booked my social calendar full; I was hanging out with someone nearly…
