It’s unhealthy for us, there are way too many bots and troll accounts that only exist to make you angry.

The people who own the social media sites sell all your information to shady companies.

Hmmm, wonder why less and less people are posting.

It’s just filled with so much misinformation and lately it just kind of makes my stomach turn the way we talk/interact to one another that would never happen IRL though tbh the way society is going i wouldn’t be surprised if it did spill over

For me personally, AI slops are destroying everything.

I don’t want to be in places where every time I read or see something I have to wonder if I’m interacting with another human or a robot, it’s awful.

And it has become also more difficult to find interesting content when at every turn you find AI crap overtaking everything else, it’s tiring.

I am completely baffled by headlines like this that can be solved by just fucking talking to people who don’t work in tech. “Why have you stopped posting on social media?” “Because Facebook sucks ass and you won’t show anything I post to my friends anyway”

At one point instagram decided to show me so much vitriolic comments I actively started to hate people, thinking thats what people were like (I admit i was isolated and had mental health issues at the time). So for me that’s one major reason why I chose to leave

Social media is a horrible place to be, the only one i kept was Instagram but i closed my account last year because it was full of ads, spam and fascist bs.

The entire point of social media was to show off how fake and better than everyone else’s lives yours is. Now everyones lives suck and theyre too lazy to fake it because ai means anyone can shop themselves in the bahamas.

Edit: rich celebrities post on social media all the time. Youre just not thinking of the hypercapitalist influencers. Gotta expand your horizons.

Because all social media is a fetid cesspool of pedofascist bootlicking and foreign bots pretending to be pedofascist bootlickers and foreign troll farms pretending to be pedofascist bootlickers. That’s why I left, anyway.

It is largely unpleasant, deliberately unrewarding yet addictive, occasionally punished, politically slanted towards billionaires, and a privacy nightmare. If anything it’s a testament to the human desire for connection that we’ve used it this long.

I started using social media to connect with friends and family, old and new, and to interact with the humans in my local community.

But those people are buried under a pile of ads, scams, and “suggestions” about shit I don’t care about.

Not to mention the absolutely wild privacy violations on an ongoing and increasingly dystopian basis.

because it was always kinda dumb.

I value my privacy

I’m in my 60s. Posting on social media mostly isn’t fun any more, and I don’t really want to put more money in the hands of billionnaire fascists. So Facebook, Reddit and Twitter are gone (I’ve had to keep Messenger as I have friends who only communicate using that platform) and I’ve never bothered with TikTok, Instagram or Snapchat anyway. This platform and Bluesky are the only ones left and I’m mostly a lurker anyway.

Constantly having the right-wing views of weapons grade cunts shoved into your eyeballs will do that.

Because you’re now interacting with unhinged strangers or unhinged family members and no one wants to deal with that in their daily lives.

This isn’t like the days of Myspace or early Facebook or even old PHP forums where you essentially chose who you interacted with and in turn selected who could interact with you. But it’s also the fact, at least for me personally, I just don’t want to share all the details that go on in my life anymore with everyone. It used to be I could post something personal online and only the people I trusted or very close friends could see it and thats who I wanted to see it. I didn’t want my Parents to stumble across the fact that a girl I was dating had a weird/unique fetish or whatever. Once my parents got on Facebook then it was over.

Social media is fine when you’re allowed to keep it within a contained, personal, and customized environment. Once you open the flood gates and allow EVERYONE into your life you might as well be screaming on a street corner about what you had for breakfast.