The downside is that it can isolate you. Where I live, if you're not on instagram you don't exist. My girlfriend is more up to date with what my colleagues are up to, even though I spent 8 hours a day with them in the same office.
The downside is that it can isolate you. Where I live, if you're not on instagram you don't exist. My girlfriend is more up to date with what my colleagues are up to, even though I spent 8 hours a day with them in the same office.
The people I want to talk to are on discord or signal, and we do actual activities together
This! I have a good friend of mine who is very active on Instagram and tiktok, where I don't have an account. But the fact that we are doing activities together makes us close. Real life exists, and it's infinitely better than whatever the social app of the moment is.
The only thing I miss is the early days of Facebook when it was just humans being human, and posting pictures of them being silly or with their family instead of flexing about newly acquired money/status, etc. But maybe that's just me remembering with rose tinted glasses.
Our brains are not wired for it
That's key for creativity after all.