Going non-social?

There are perks. I never liked overlooking windows in my back garden. My idea of sharing on social platforms was always to keep connected with family and people I already knew. Yes, admittedly, there is some degree of nosiness, but in a healthy way, at least from my part.

Several years followed with a lot of “unfriending” and “unfollowing”, simply because a lot of the people being added over the years were simple acquaintances, and there were some parts of my private life I didn’t really want to be sharing. With others, I didn’t feel resonated with me, they were not engaging or simply sharing boring posts.

I have already been considering removing myself from all these platforms, because they’re no longer social. They turned into commercial platforms, with flavourless AI content. The only reason I am still on them is purely because they keep me informed (despite all the fact-checking and filtering I have to do) to ensure the content is indeed curated to suit my interests. I still think there is a lot to be done around tailoring this, where we can keep influencers and other rubbish posts filtered out. There is a lot of social media spamming currently going on. It is just exhausting…

This opinion is being shared as a result of an article I came across, which I found. I guess my devices are already adjusting my feed settings 😂 Very relevant. Enjoy.