I was never a big social media person. But back in 2012 I totally went off of social media all together. It happened because I was in grad school and my girlfriend at the time had lots of anxiety issues. Her doctor recommended that she delete her facebook. She was worried about "missing out" on things if she deleted it so her and I decided to delete it together at the same time. 10 years have passed and I still don't have an account and don't miss it at all! The only social media that I have is LinkedIn (and HN) for work purposes but haven't logged into it more than a few times a year.
There are some challenges to not having social media however. It has been integrated into so many other apps and platforms that it is hard to get away from. For example, some of my close friends have a Messenger group chat. Sometimes I have missed out on planning events because of that. Also platforms like Oculus started to require a FB to log in. Online dating was also hard. Dates would ask for my FB or Instagram account and when I told them that I didn't have one they would think I was trying to hide something. I don't want to totally bash social media BUT I really hope that it goes back to what it was originally made for and all of the integrations stop. I don't think this is the trend though...
There are some challenges to not having social media however. It has been integrated into so many other apps and platforms that it is hard to get away from. For example, some of my close friends have a Messenger group chat. Sometimes I have missed out on planning events because of that. Also platforms like Oculus started to require a FB to log in. Online dating was also hard. Dates would ask for my FB or Instagram account and when I told them that I didn't have one they would think I was trying to hide something. I don't want to totally bash social media BUT I really hope that it goes back to what it was originally made for and all of the integrations stop. I don't think this is the trend though...