Have you ever had the urge to delete your social media 🤔?

Question

I have the urge to delete my Instagram, rn. 😂😂😂 I can’t delete snap, because I have years of pictures on there. 🤣🤣🤣 What about you? Have you ever had the urge before? 🤔

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I’d like to, if I didn’t have family all over it. If I delete it. I’d have family and friends asking were tf I gone… so in that case I’d want to keep the accounts and just delete the apps. But then again some people that contact me only through there will be missing me.

Also I have a second persona (and that would be my artistic one) that I separate for my art. So basically I’d have a second IG, a second Facebook and such.
Thats why my username is EMYYWOLF.
My DeviantArt is EmyyWolf.
My YouTube is EmyyWolf.

Thats for privacy reasons , and to say and post whatever I want without my family getting in the way. Another thing , I tend to utilize tools such as Instagram and other forms of social media to stalk and research some of the people I come across. If I’m dating someone and whatever else. Because any boss I have will be able to look me up, then I should be able to look them up as well.
Just the other day, an EX-Boss of mine added me on Facebook out of nowhere lol. Now my coworker and I were looking through all his stuff and making fun of him.

XD

Use social media, don’t let it use you. And if you need to take month-breaks and delete everything for a month. And then come back for a month. Take care of you first.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Yes, couple times actually. But I just stop caring at some point, before I used to post stuffs I think others would think cool and it felt like I had no control over my social media anymore it's like I'm just trying to look pleasing for other people instead of being real but now idgaf 😂

Jamie05rhs · Accepted Answer

I believe impulses to delete accounts are due to certain people's erratic nature and lack of commitment. I wouldn't marry someone like that, because I'd be afraid that they might get divorced one day on a whim.

Please don't take this personally. 💚

astep · Accepted Answer

Yes, last year I did delete my instagram, and I was out of it for 6 months

Anonymous · Answer

I did before and during quarantine. I wish I could give away my phone and just use one of those old nokias to make important calls only, but I can't cuz I get all my uni and important stuff info through my phone when I'm out.
I hate smartphones tbh, people all the time using that thing, they can't even watch a movie, be in class, eat or go to the bathroom without checking it, I wish we all used old nokias, since most people doesn't seems to be able to control their urge to check social media and take a hundred selfies and photos of food.

MelaninQueen21 · Answer

Yes. Absolutely. Had to delete my account from Reddit, but my sister and I. Dealing with trolls, bullies and just losers all day was just too overwhelming! I'm glad there were some people who were nice and supportive of me, regarding my situation, but it just got too much to bear 😩 I just use TikTok to look at videos and occasionally post. I use Instagram to post my outfits and barely use Facebook. Don't use Twitter, although I have an account and haven't used it in years. Deleted my Snap a long time ago.

I think that having too many social media accounts can and does have an affect on you emotional and mentally. Its just not healthy for us to be on our devices like this. We have loves to live and things to take care of ❤ We are more important than some of those dumb, cliché influencers that we follow and the sad and tragic things that we see and experienced.

EllaLouisee · Answer

I deleted my Facebook account about 3 years ago, I just woke up one day looked at my feed and it was so bloody depressing and I'd had enough of being told about all the bad in the world, and to this day I still don't have my Facebook at it is honestly the best thing I've done.

aWes0MeNeSs · Answer

Yes, I've deactivated accounts for periods of time before, and I've really limited my time on them within the past few years. I keep them as an easy way for people to contact me/for me to contact them if needed, because it's nice to be able to look up business pages and such on them, and because I also have years of posts and photos on them (I've downloaded and backed up all of the photos).

The_Shadow_Dweller · Answer

Oh, lots of times!
Have even deleted too!
No one out of my friends and family knows about my social accounts, even the new ones.
Each and every account is protected by disposable email accounts too. That too with fake names.
So unless anyone works at ISPs or anyone is working at a particular website and takes special interest in my account for I. P., I am good!

Julyus01 · Answer

Yes I have before. Not a lot of people realize but social media is and addiction and can cause unhappiness like my self. I found peace in times at my worse when I’d delete them not knowing what others in this world are doing preventing me from comparing my life to theirs.

VikingWarLord · Answer

Just take time away and get another routine like working out or walking 10,000 steps a day down by the lake or beach (if you're near the coast). Start cooking at home and drinking more water. You'd be surprised how much of your day all these things takes up. But you can do this for like a month and then come back to Social Media. Life is about BALANCE.

Valso · Answer

I already did - a few months ago with Fascistbook and a little more than a month ago with Instagram. I've never used TikTok, WhatsApp and Snapchat and I never will. I'm only using social media where freedom of speech and of personal opinion is exactly that. That's why RN I have only profiles on Atheist Social Network and Twitter. If some day Twitter becomes a tyrannical media like Fascistbook, I'll delete my account there too.

SecretGardenBlood65 · Answer

I have Facebook but I rarely use it. I have Instagram but I dont share picturesI deleted Snap in 2015. badoo was deleted in 2013. I don't use Turkish gag because there are so many idiots out there. I have second university groups on WhatsApp and on telegram. whenever i finish university then i will delete them too.

melanieeeB · Answer

Yeaah and I did delete all of them, installed insta again tho after few months. But I have never used it the same way again.

But going to delete it soon again, just waiting for an answer form this woman I'm trying to befriend lol

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I ghosted all my friends from church and avoided using Facebook for around 3 years cause I felt fake and I’m not sure why and I also felt I was getting too much attention which was another reason I wanted to hide.

yearningforlife · Answer

All the time. Sometimes you just need to be "offline" and distance yourself from everything I often think of this but I love seeing how my friends are doing and how they’re succeeding in life.

Dinklex3 · Answer

I did for a little over a year.  Cut off my cell phone too (had straight talk at the time)  I often go incognito when I'm trying to recenter myself.  But i haven't done it since i was 22 or 23.

Anonymous · Answer

I do not have a social media

I was around when facebook first came out

and after some time I could see
it was gonna lead to bad things

so I do not use it really or post pictures

and now they are asking for my phone number

THEY ARE INSANE LOL
im not giving them shit

anon171999 · Answer

Yes, I did 1 year ago. This is the only app that remains. It was a great decision. My mental health has improved so much. Tiktok is the worst of the social media apps.

Horror_lover92 · Answer

I deleted Facebook lol but logged back in after realizing my family members sucks at responding to texts or calling back. It seems like they respond back faster on Facebook.

petitedollbabee · Answer

I always have the urge to delete all social media and just disappear from the public eye, but then I decide against it because I’ll have no way to contact my family overseas or my friends

Static_In_The_Attic · Answer

Farewell To Facebook four year ago I said & four years later thinking about it the right decision was made & there is more to life than a status update & a few likes.

RolandCuthbert · Answer

I can't. My livelihood depends on social media. Besides, I am conducting my racial/cultural discussions on facebook. Can't turn back now. I think I will be doing this for the rest of my life.

DJaQueef · Answer

Yes several times. I refuse to use tik-tok or watch anything related to it. Every person on tik-tok deserves an upper decker, reverse kanga, Cleveland steamer & warm Carl pulled on them daily.

Brainsbeforebeauty · Answer

I don't have social media, other than GAG.. And if I didn't want to be on here, I just wouldn't be, wouldn't delete account, cuz even if you delete your threads and posts are still there so🤷🏼‍♀️

MartianBuddy · Answer

Facebook especially, I get like 50 freaking notifications a day. The only saving grace is Facebook marketplace. It rocks.

Bel88 · Answer

You do know you can transfer your photos to a hard drive or USB stick don't you? Then you'll be able to get rid of "Snap", whatever that is.

JustinTheGreat · Answer

Yes, im way too addicted to my phone so I wonder how productive I’d be if I didn’t have social media to distract me

Apulu_3 · Answer

Yes once I had urge to delete gag because of racist comments but the connect of my close friends here holded me back.

Anonymous · Answer

I terminated my facebook profile like 4 years ago  It's about 6 months that I've deleted InstagramThinking of deactivating Snapchat too And trust me life is more peaceful without social media

Anonymous · Answer

I've sometimes had the desire to delete (if that's even possible) everything I've ever typed online, on any platform/site/... including all petitions I've signed (which I know IS impossible). But then I rethink it, and realize that God has given me a purpose, one of which IS to sign online petitions, and to type comments which are conservative and moral and which Glorify God.

Sarahr123 · Answer

I have deleted and recreated many times. Yes today I felt like I should not delete but deactivate my Instagram for a couple of years probably.

Moose304 · Answer

I never really got into it. Of course, I am active on here and on Reddit. I am on Twitter and that's it. My Twitter account is used mostly in protected mode to communicate general business stuff!

uwu_princess · Answer

I'd like to delete my fb. However I need it to contact with my family.. For them - fb is like 'must have'

Nagahime · Answer

I've already deleted my Twitter that I never use and I barely use Instagram anymore. The only social media I actively use anymore is Snapchat, and that's just for goofing off.

my500thaccongag · Answer

yes, thats why this is my 500th account on GaG ahahah. I just keep deleting the old one and make a new one

DonkeyDan · Answer

Done it about 18 months ago, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc. The only place I come now is here, and I don't really classify this as social media.

Shy_Steve · Answer

I was thinking about deleting my Facebook because I don't use it much, But I have relatives overseas and it's the only way to contact them so I just keep it and check it occasionally.

Mark987 · Answer

Almost all the time.. especially now with Covid.. separating friends and people... it's getting annoying... the only reason I keep it around is because of some of the comments people write are down right hilarious

Alyssa_11 · Answer

I stopped using social media except for work purposes and let me tell you the quality of my life is soooo much better.

NathanDavis · Answer

I've only had G@G... never thought about deleting, I like the people around here...

SaoirseS · Answer

Yes, I got off Facebook and deleted my account a few years ago.

WhatTheHeckkkk · Answer

All the time. I actually deleted the apps when I have this urge.

dustybiker · Answer

I only have them for the notifications from people I follow that I benefit from.

Uptowngirl88 · Answer

I just Uninstall app until I'm ready to go back. But yes I have bc sometimes I get overwhelmed. Not with this app but Facebook and Instagram is a bit too much

Still-alive · Answer

i pretty much NEVER use facebook anymore although i didn't delete it.  I have deleted my gag account a number of times... yet i keep coming back

Anonymous · Answer

I deleted Instagram several times for nothing. But I have no reason to delete my current Instagram for now. Let's call it a bullet in the satan's ear. 😅

Ericastevens · Answer

Yes, I didn’t have any social media, except for Pinterest. Now I started an Instagram account but only for business purposes.

rabbitzzz · Answer

I deleted one long ago because my stupid teacher told me to. Worst mistake of my life. Wouldn't have to be so thirsty for girls if I had that account.

InferiorElegy · Answer

Aside from Instagram, I don't use social media, somehow I have some followers but I use Instagram purely for pictures of food I make and interesting things I see and take pictures of.

exitseven · Answer

I do not use social media. There was a time I almost deleted my GaG account though.

Jay3344 · Answer

Deleted my Facebook in 2010 because I was spending at least half an hour a day in there wasting time.

dtweed1996 · Answer

I think so I remember a Facebook account I had was disabled but I think the community really closed it or maybe both

MysticDevice · Answer

Every day. The stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me.

John_Doesnt · Answer

People should be deleting their Facebook account, but Zuckerberg just keeps making money.

noohair · Answer

Twitter gone 5 years ago. No snap, No Inst, no tik, And a blank facebook I use to amuse myself. And this place.

Priv9696 · Answer

Yes but I always end up going back on it because I feel like I could be missing out on finding the love of my life in my DMS😭

OddBeMe · Answer

I deleted fb. Felt good. Luckily some weird marketing company mirrored my business fb page so I don’t have to worry about it.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes! So I did, like six years ago. Was a great decision.

honestanswersonly_ · Answer

I deleted all mine years ago. It took me deleting and reactivating fb a bunch of times to finally be done with it. Insta i believe once its gone its gone. You can always ss the pics b4 deletion.

kellytheman · Answer

I don't use social media anymore not even Facebook. The only social media I use is YouTube and GaG

Bismarck_96 · Answer

I already did like 6 years ago and it improved my mental health

Guanfei · Answer

I wish I could, but that's basically the only way for me to talk to people, as I have no one irl.

Minahh · Answer

I've been contemplating ditching my entire internet personality and just go to live in the woods

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