Why I ghosted social media in 2018

Let’s start with the big question…

Why did I ghost social media in 2018?

I mention in my about page that the first few years of no social media presence ultimately lead to most people asking why I had decided to ditch the apps. I won’t lie, at the time it kind of annoyed me.

Firstly, because the question sometimes felt derogatory, as if there was an underlying implication that I was unnecessarily resisting the social-norm in order to be different, and secondly, because it wasn’t ever just one single concrete reason so I found myself listing some of those reason (half of which was obviously incomprehensible to some people) or simply saying “there’s a bunch of reasons.”

Instagram was my final social media straw which I deleted in 2018–when I was 22, maybe two or three years prior to that I had cleared my presence from Facebook and Snapchat.