Just an update .. 5 years after posting this topic ( The virtual world of social media ) back in 2016
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On November 2019 I had to deactivate my account on Facebook .. that was not the first time .. I frequently do so .. I take breaks. .. And I come back a few weeks later .. I just enjoyed being immune .. proving to myself and to many other people that addiction to Facebook is treatable ..
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However this time I had to go to extreme measures .. I wanted to stay away from Facebook for a whole year .. I only came back in November 2020 .. and since then I'm never the same Facebook user that I was between 2011 and 20019 .. I rarely use it now .. and when I say ( extreme measures ) I do mean it .. I had to unfriend everybody in November 2019 to force myself to stay away from facebook .. I explained this to all my friends and told them I had to do it ..
when I reactivated my account in November 2020 I started sending friend requests .. but not all of them .. I used to have more than 100 friends .. Now I have only twenty .. and I noticed that my life is much better without Facebook .. even after coming back I'm not attracted to it ..
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Note .. Im not asking everybody to do the same like me .. I don't consider myself as an example to follow .. because we're individuals and we are different .. everyone of us should do what he or she thinks is good for him or her ..
I just wanted to share this as an experience and an update ..
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On November 2019 I had to deactivate my account on Facebook .. that was not the first time .. I frequently do so .. I take breaks. .. And I come back a few weeks later .. I just enjoyed being immune .. proving to myself and to many other people that addiction to Facebook is treatable ..
..
However this time I had to go to extreme measures .. I wanted to stay away from Facebook for a whole year .. I only came back in November 2020 .. and since then I'm never the same Facebook user that I was between 2011 and 20019 .. I rarely use it now .. and when I say ( extreme measures ) I do mean it .. I had to unfriend everybody in November 2019 to force myself to stay away from facebook .. I explained this to all my friends and told them I had to do it ..
when I reactivated my account in November 2020 I started sending friend requests .. but not all of them .. I used to have more than 100 friends .. Now I have only twenty .. and I noticed that my life is much better without Facebook .. even after coming back I'm not attracted to it ..
..
Note .. Im not asking everybody to do the same like me .. I don't consider myself as an example to follow .. because we're individuals and we are different .. everyone of us should do what he or she thinks is good for him or her ..
I just wanted to share this as an experience and an update ..
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