Antisocial Media

I spend the last 6 months totally off of Social media. It was an interesting experiement. There is no doubt it was a healthy move.

I have tried to isolate what I hate the most and what I love the most about Social Media such as Facebook and Instagram that would drive me to depart.

What I love:

• ability to find and connect to friends and family
• ability to update everyone so easily
• ease of use to upload photos, videos, content
• easy to look up profiles of people in my circles to see if they would be worth connecting with

What I hate:

• advertising - no paid ad-free model
• the infinite scroll - there is no end - content keeps coming
• wading through the same mundane and un-extraordinary jokes and low level humor again and again
• there is no content categorization or filtering or really subscribting to parts of what people post - it is all or nothing. Maybe these features are there but it is not built on this fundamental.
• the algorithm - no way to limit content I see to just what I subscribe to or search for manually
• the addiction - the urge to pick up and fill the void at every pause in life - very difficult to keep it cut down without cutting it out entirely