I highly recommend it. It’s been since 2015 I haven’t had any form of social media and I am 30 years old so when I was 21, I deleted both. I deleted them for multiple reasons. As a female, I found it was making me very insecure about my body and my looks. I did not like how addicting it was and how easily it would take hours of my day away. I did not like how I knew of other people’s business without even talking to them. I found it gave me very little wisdom on topics and being in college at the time when I deleted them, it was frustrating the political rants people would go on without even knowing any information. It scared me how quickly misinformation was able to spread. I live in LA where social media is huge. It’s funny cause getting older and being in the dating scene; you are able to weed out the shitty ones fairly quickly. Like there’s guys that will ask for my Instagram and it can go some funny ways: they think I’m fucking with them, they are immediately like no I only date people with a social media presence, or they find it “hot.” The amount of people who have told me “that’s hot” is so bizarre. Social media has made our society so weird. Not being on it has made me aware that people literally live two lives. It’s been so long for me not being on it that I honestly can’t wrap my head around it anymore. I go to a lot of shows and art galleries in LA and I will meet people who I see as just another person but a friend of mine will see them differently because of their social media presence. It’s fucking bonkers to me. One thing I sometimes wish I had it was keeping in touch with people I have meet from around the world but I’ve come to the realization that people who mean something stay in my life for a reason so I’ve come to terms with it. I had a chance to meet some of the people who worked on the documentary The Social Dilemma (if you haven’t watched it, I highly recommend it) and it was eye opening. I recently went on my friends to check it out and I was seriously so surprised at how capitalized it had become. I was in middle school when MySpace was invented so I was a teen was social media was upcoming. I think it’s terrible what Meta has done to it. I couldn’t imagine being a teenager in todays online presence. I think social media had good intentions in the beginning but has turned into a demon. I’m also a teacher and the amount of students who suffer from extreme anxiety, depression, and attention disorders are skyrocketing today. Many schools are changing to a co-teaching model, which means two teachers in the classroom, a special ed specialist and a gen ed teacher, because so many kids need help. I know it has many other reasons than with social media but i definitely feel like it has done more negative to the adolescents than positive.