Gone cold turkey.... On un-social media

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That's it, I'm done. Deleted (as in removed completely, not just deactivated) Faceache back at the beginning of December, removed my Instagram account towards the end of December and now I've just deleted twitter as well.
Anyone else just gone cold turkey on the lot of it?
It seems to me it has become unsocial media rather than social media, where people would rather stay in and write on a computer the trivialities of their life rather than engage with actual people now adays.
Remember I come from an age where this was the norm as mobile phones hadn't even been invented when I was growing up, let alone the modern day internet..
I miss those times, I miss the true interaction with people but... and it's a massive but.... I'm not sure I know how to get back to that having been so insular and so "distant" for so long..
This I suspect is actually going to be quite difficult.
I must have picked up my phone thirty times this morning already and gone... oh yea, I deleted all those apps.
I kinda make an exception with this place as it is the probably the very first place I visited back in the day as I was trying to upgrade one of my first pc's.
One thing I don't want to do though is end up using this forum as a crutch for all the other ones that are now gone to the ether.
Sheesh, rambling.. Happy new year.

 

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And you're writing this on OcUK?

I didn't think it would be long before someone drew that analogy I know, I can see the irony in it myself.
The problem being is I have drifted unknowingly into using them as actual social media instead of, as Ray has finely pointed out, using them to just create physical interactions.

 

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I tried keeping the messenger app but when I logged in, it logged me back in to Faceache and undid the deactivation (that's why I asked for full and complete deletion) so maybe after that's gone I can get back on messenger to at least have an avenue to keep in touch without all the added bullrubbish that goes along with that... however, having said that, I think they've added a "storyline" to messenger too like so still can't get away from peoples daily trivia even with that.

 

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I think it's an addiction thing more than anything else, nothing to do with the content as such. I deleted everyone I didn't actually know many years ago already, including some I thought I'd never see again, some of them OcUKers, some old school friends I had zero connection with since, not many posted particular drivel, some did and yes they were gone long before the main cull a few years ago.

 

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Why are you still here?
This place is just like Facebook but you don't know anybody!
We have pictures of cats, food, people moaning about love and everything else Facebook offers but you will still remain here.
You are not on a high horse so get down until you press the button on OCUK.

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