Hello.

I am part of the younger side of Lemmy, and I wonder if there are any teens or otherwise young people that have de-Googled and/or removed all social media.

I notice, that everybody around me in real life uses Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, what have you… hundreds of notifications and messages from other people… and I cannot really relate. I deleted Instagram for my mental health, as some posts were greatly affecting my self-esteem. If somebody were to ask me for my social media, I’d probably just give them my number.

I don’t really know a lot of people around me that have this interest of online privacy (let alone people my age). So, will the (young) users of Lemmy enlighten me?

  • BeboEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Well, I am not young, being in my late thirties. The last time I used social media was Facebook, which I stopped using back in 2015. Back then I just got bored. I realised that didn’t care in the least about most of the few hundred Facebook “friends” I had and completely lost any interest in scrolling my feed. Since then the only social media I have used was reddit and now lemmy. I think I enjoy this more since the focus is more on the topic/content than people. I have also tried out Instagram and twitter, but didn’t find anything to hold my interest. Lately I have started using Mastodon. It’s mostly an experiment on my part, let’s how long I use it before getting bored. It actually baffles me what do people, who spend hours on various social media, find so interesting! Like what really engages them?