Social media has lost it’s true purpose…
All the site does is piss me off and alienate me. Plus I really enjoy the idea of being anonymous on these interwebs.
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I had it when it first came out, then went years without it. Then I had it again for like a year, and I deleted it about 2 years ago when I got sick. I still don’t have it, and I don’t miss it at all.
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Haha that’s cool. Yeah this will be my second account I deleted. When am I going to learn my lesson?
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It’s hard because it is good for keeping in touch with old friends. I can get a vicarious fix through my wife, she could never go without hers lol
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lol Yeah the only reason I keep it is to stay in touch with an old military buddy who is overseas now.
But he hardly talks to me. The other day he said he didn’t feel like talking on the internet phone. 
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I had around 4 Facebook accounts i chose to delete. I have one now, but i have 3 friends (one is my brother) and i will not request anyone. I’ve had countless Twitter accounts overtime since i was in high school. I now have one with 25 followers and that’s good enough for me. I get overwhelmed easily with social media. I like it here.
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I like it here too. I can be myself and no one judges me. It’s nice. I just feel like social media is sort of an oxymoron.
Social+media = people having 1,000 connections and not talking to or meeting up in person with any of them.
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social sites, where I’m not anonymous, make me feel weird compared to everyone else especially when they ignore and block. or when they criticize my picture or background.
and facebook spams automated messages, wanting me to talk with those people.
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How anal retentive of people. Can’t anyone be themselves when it comes to a profile pic or background?
Sorry to hear about the spam.
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I will say this: when i developed schizophrenia I deleted ALL my social media. Facebook, snapchat, instagram, everything. I completely isolated myself for 3 years.
After a long internal battle, I decided to get Facebook again. It feels good to be connected with people that I used to know. It kind of shattered a lot of delusions I had about people I used to know, and makes me feel normal and not so isolated.
Is that the right thing for everyone? Certainly not. I still am very careful about what I share and what I want people to know about me. But I feel safe finally reconnecting with people on facebook. So its been positive for me. Best of luck either way!
PS: you can always take a long break and come back. Don’t delete all your photos and then wake up one day missing all of them 
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Yeah I just deleted all my pics on facebook. I have them all on my computer though.
I do appreciate it for staying in touch with military friends. But they all are still in the service and have more or less moved on with their lives.
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cool. i literally deleted everything. like everything when i was super delusional
i found some of them backed up on my old email though. and I’ve got new pictures from my recent trip so I kinda feel normal now. having no photos of my life felt pretty awful tbh. all good now though. 
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Well that’s good that you’re feeling better @thomas.
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I keep an anonymous Facebook because Im addicted to debate forums lol
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I just deleted mine 2 days ago, you can just keep messenger if you want to contact friends
I understand that alienated feeling caused by social media. I get jealous how easily some people get along and write their friends on facebook and other sites. I can never do that i’m afraid to be embarrassed or to embarrass others.
I so badly want to just come out in facebook both for being gay and another for being sza or sz whatever the doctor changed it to. mostly I want people to know because I feel like i’m hiding all the time either my partner or my illness and people just don’t understand the difference between me being weird or me having a mental illness.
I didn’t know you can keep the messenger after you delete your account. That’s kind of cool.
@cbbrown I hope you are able to one day find inner peace on those issues.
Take care 
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When you go to deactivate it theres check boxes for them to stop receiving emails and also messenger. I think to keep messenger I left it unchecked but I’m not positive
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thanks @Chrishasheart, I am glad for this site it is a life saver and such a stress reliever.
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