Why I am leaving social media?

Hello,

I am writing this post after thinking on this topic a lot. Social media's been a very important part in my life ever since i was a kid. The time when I made my first email on a nokia phone that had physical buttons with facebook on it. I knew this is something that's gonna change the way we live our day to day life.
I made a facebook account when I was in 3rd standard aka at the age of 8 (which i faked on the site). and I started using it, initlally the whole social media ecosystem was very very simple. But now when you look at it it's hungry for attention. More specifically instragram. I don't know how but instagram is now the go to social for people. Obv doesn't beat whatsapp but on instagram I used to upload my TBR and what I have been reading, but as I shifted to college the high of getting likes on posts that show you became real. I started optimising my profile that'll get me the most likes or will make people like me more. Before that this wasn't the case, I will put a story of the most random richerd stallman meme I could find and wouldn't give a rat's ass about it, that if someone liked it or not.

Eventually I noticed this pattern and I started using a fork of the instagram called dfinstagram and it was a very good app. I could basically stop every possible feature that instagram made to take my attention away. for eg. endlessly watching people's stories, unlimited reels and random feed. All I noticed very easily and as they say.

When you get something for free, you are the product

I picked on this and later I have minimised the amount of time I spent on instagram or other forms of social media, but there was still one platform which was constantly made to spend 5-10 minutes here and there always for me. LINKEDIN, while scrolling linkedin it feels productive, people are showing pdfs and top 3 tricks but the thing is I never asked or searched for it, everr. Not to mention whenever I opened Linkedin I always had notifications that are not even related to what I want to see at all. Which was a loop for me to always look and touch that button just to clean my notifications.

Last year I bought a book (which I haven't finished completly btw) Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport and some of the things he said about Attention Economy made really good sense to me, and it really got me thinking how do people like cillian murphy or my girlfriend have lived their life with little to none phone usage how does their brain not just go for it. As it turns out none of us are perfect human beings, infact we are pretty easy to be controlled and manipulated into spending time effortlessly on these platforms.

So After giving this a very very good thought, I am leaving all social platforms, maybe some accounts you might see, deactivated/deleted/inactive. Please feel free to reach out to me on my email. I read all my emails and I always reply to them.

Also this website is like a living project for me, obviously I have to share some of my life with people and this website is made to do that, you can expect technical articles, my thoughts, book reviews and other interesting stuff on it.

Thanks, Pandharpurkar Advait (LordOfWizard)