i deleted social media on the 26th of march 2021. It's currently been one month
and i wanted to share an update on how this has changed my life, what i've been doing and whether
i recommend this to anyone who's thinking about it. Oh also, i'm gonna address that comment that
spammed the last social media video. So a month ago i uploaded a video titled
i deleted social media forever as a gen z and for some reason youtube ate that up it and threw
me out into the algorithm in contrast to my other videos that would usually get 100 views. Honestly,
i was so moved by all of the comments, all of the people who said "you've made me want to do this
too" or "I've been wanting to for a while but this video popped up in my feed and now i'm thinking
it's time" or oh "i've done the same thing as you and my my mental health has improved so much". So
thank you to everyone who commented; it was so nice reading all of your stories
about your experience releasing social media or why you haven't yet deleted it. And listen,
i did not want to make a one month update and there's a reason for this because i feel like
it's weird to take the one video that the youtube algorithm really likes and to just
keep going with it like one month update six month update one year update of social media
just because it's what the algorithm liked. So I originally wasn't going to do this video but
i did have a lot of comments telling me to share my experience. So okay, ask and
you shall receive... but you asked for it not me. So i guess the first thing i should address is how
do i feel about deleting social media after one month? iI is the point of this video after all.
Honestly i feel indifferent in some respects. In some respects i feel a lot better but
in general has this experience changed my life and made me a new person?
No i'm still the same person; i just don't have social media anymore. However there are
some aspects of deleting social media which has really improved my quality of life. For example i
am way more productive in regards to university and getting youtube videos filmed. I've been
rolling out videos lately um on my channel nothing you guys would see because you see the tuesday and
thursday video but i've been creating lots in the background so that i have lots of backup
videos if i decide i don't like one. I've been ahead of university work for the first time ever.
So in this sense, yeah it's changed my life i'm way more productive. But also, i've had way more
free time to read and to draw and to be creative and to make youtube videos and most importantly,
to be present with my friends and family. Now this is something that a lot of people had
said on the video like "oh i i haven't yet deleted it because i don't want to lose my friends"
but as i said in another video you're not losing friends by deleting social media you using you're
losing a platform that you share stuff with your friends, but if they're your friends get their
number and if they're from a different country than you and you don't want to pay overseas bills
get them on whatsapp: it's free. I have so many friends in different countries more out with
the uk than in the uk and i use whatsapp for free honestly to tell you the truth it has not changed
one of my relationships at all. If anything it's improved them because now i'm not endlessly
scrolling for people i don't care about i'm just texting my friends telling them updates about my
life listening to their updates. I feel like it's done nothing but good in regards to that aspect.
Another thing i think has improved is my mental health. I have felt a lot clearer in the brain a
lot more stable because i'm having the time to do i like to do which is being creative and relaxing.
So yeah, it has changed parts of my life but of course i'm still the same person, i just
no longer have platforms to waste time on. On to my next point which is so funny, I must have had
40 comments saying "posting I deleted social media when youtube is a social media" or "does she know
that youtube is a social media?" "who else here thinks that youtube is a social media/" So let
me address that. Do i think youtube is a social media? Kind of. Kind of is my answer. I think it's
nothing like instagram or facebook or twitter. I think it's completely different in comparison
to those social medias. But nonetheless, it is a platform where you share content.
I guess if i deleted tick tock then i'm kind of being hypocritical not deleting youtube but the
reason i've kept youtube and deleted similar social medias like tick tock is because tiktok
videos are maximum one minute. This it's a really really addictive algorithm i find it way more
addictive than youtube and because of the feature where you scroll and there's a new video so you
don't have to choose videos you can spend hours and hours on that and I really hated that style of
algorithm. Whereas in youtube, you have to choose what comes up next and for that i would maybe
sometimes go for five minutes and not want to see any of the videos so i would just leave the app.
So that's why i deleted tiktok and not youtube but again, i think youtube is kind of a mix between
a social media and like a website such as amazon prime or netflix, does that make sense?
You do more watching than you do socializing. Now on the contrary, i get why people commented
this because of course youtube is addictive too and yeah okay, it's a fair comment. i get it.
The thing about youtube since leading social media is i definitely have spent more time on it but not
more time watching videos. Honestly, if anything less because i felt so creative since i'm not
being bombarded with social media all day. I feel like i'm spending all of my time filming editing
and uploading videos to youtube rather than just aimlessly scrolling and watching content. So in
summary, i am not deleting youtube anytime soon i love making videos, i love producing content,
and i love you youtube as the social media. And this is another thing that i wanted to address,
if you want to delete all your social media except snapchat or except instagram because
those apps to you mean something, don't delete it. Not everything has to be an extreme.
It's like the same thing with veganism: you have to be either 100% vegan or 0%
vegan and i think there's always a scale, there's always boundaries that you can hit. I saw a really
good comment saying "i would love to delete all of them but i use instagram for business"
In that case, don't delete instagram. Sure delete the others if you think it's clouding your
your creativity your judgement your mental health, but if you're getting joy out of an app then
obviously don't delete it. So i'm not telling you to delete social media i'm just explaining
what my process is being like why i deleted it but just because i did something doesn't mean you
need to and you don't need to do it to the extreme that i did it or you could also delete youtube if
you think youtube isn't useful that's we all have different opinions and this theme is no different.
Okay so in summary, i am good without social media. I have no addiction left over from it,
i feel better without it and i do not see me getting it in the future. Maybe one day
i might download it, i would "never say never" as the expression goes but i personally don't
think i will get it back because i feel more human since leaving social media, I feel less of a robot
or less of a less of a marketing target to just scroll and stay on an app. So personally,
i won't get it back but even if you try deleting social media for a month and you yourself thinks
"i want it back" girl, boy go get it back then! Who am i to judge you?
As i said before i'm so moved by all of the comments that you guys put on that video and i
just wanted to say thank you again. I love hearing all of your personal stories, i love hearing how
topics like these have changed your life but as i've mentioned a few times already don't
think if everything is a 100% or 0% percent. You can delete a couple apps without
deleting them all and you can still feel good that you got rid of one part of the addiction.
I am not here to judge, i'm just here to share my experience.
So with that being said, thank you for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed,
here are two videos i recommend you watch and if not, that's okay. i hope see you soon!
bye-bye
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