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?

  • FishCrayons
    3•10 months ago

    I left social media 7 years ago at the age 19and just this last month have I started to dip my toes back in to forms and such mostly because of not wanting to be a tool for content creators and companies to make money off of and then also the amount of time wasted scrolling swiping was absurd I constantly have to tell people I meet “don’t have any social media just text me”