Lots of people these days have said they’re giving up social media. Don’t you end up isolated? I tried giving up FB around 2010ish for a couple of months. I found out friends had lost babies at term, gotten married (eloped). I didn’t know about any of this until I saw them weeks later.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to give it up, but as I live alone, I would be so out of the loop. Dives are arranged on FB groups or Messenger chat groups. I have long term friends I’ve known only online for more than 20 years. No FB, no keeping in touch. One group started on a forum, but then the forum died, and we moved to a private FB group. I have friends who don’t text, but only use FB Messenger instead.

I rarely post on IG and I’ve only ever occasionally read stuff on Threads.

What about you?