Since I took a month off social media, I’ve wanted to delete my social media. I often don’t see the point in broadcasting my life over the internet in perfectly curated images. After all, since October, I’ve only posted one picture of myself. So why is it so hard to delete social media? One word: FOMO.
Sometimes I think that if people really cared to know what’s going on in my life, they’d call or text. However, since taking time off social media, connecting has been quite the opposite. It’s a hard pill to swallow, but people get updates on their friends without talking to them. To me, it’s a bit impersonal and definitely difficult when you’re in long distance friendships.
At first, I wondered if my friends really did care about me. I was gone from social media for over a month. Also, I was dealing with major life changes and I felt like no one was around. Furthermore, I didn’t feel like I could talk to anyone. Everyone is always so busy and I just didn’t want to be a bother with my own problems. However, at the end of all of this, I realized that we get updates on people through pictures on social media.
But I have to ask are we even still connected?
It sounds like a bit of a circle because it is! I can’t delete social media because I want to stay connected, yet I don’t feel connected at all. I have no idea what is really going on with my friends. For example, the one picture I posted on Instagram, no one knows that I felt really frustrated earlier that week and really needed a friend to talk to.
It’s funny that social media connects us but isolates us to. We see our friends going on trips and we think that they don’t have time to talk to us. Yet, we want to know what they’re up to. It doesn’t really seem like we can win, can we?
So, what am I going to do? The answer to this question is still in the air. The only reason I haven’t deleted social media is because I don’t want to lose past memories and connections with my friends. But I have to ask are we even still connected?
Question of the day:
Have you ever wanted to delete social media?
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Yes! I’ve deactivated facebook so many times. I feel like if I didn’t have a blog I wouldn’t be on any social medias. I don’t really go on facebook that much anymore. I only keep it because a lot of my really close friends are on there and it’s the only way to stay in contact with them. I guess I could just transfer them over to whatsapp though. I try to schedule as many posts as I can for instagram and twitter so I don’t really need to go on them that much. I just get sick of feeling like I need to always update them!
I can definitely relate! It can be such a problem!