I personally stopped using Facebook as an experiment in September of last year. The idea was to go 1 month without the social network. After the month was over

I personally stopped using Facebook as an experiment in September of last year. The idea was to go 1 month without the social network. After the month was over, I never went back. This wasn't about the data sharing. I was aware of this all along. I also didn't delete my account. All data 'breached' has been sucked out long ago. It was just that I realized Facebook made me feel worse. I was constantly engaged with championing causes I feel passionate about. However, I did realize that for all my activity I achieved fairly little, and that the daily 'triggers' and 'write-offs' didn't function as a relieve, but rather as a self-reinforcing of a feeling of perpetual anger and discomfort. I do miss some of the social interactions with friends and acquaintances with whom FB was the only link left. I kept Messenger and occasionally use that still to communicate more directly. I don't think I will go back to FB (or similar social networks), even if they would solve the 'privacy' issues. I currently feel this type of 'long distance/low threshold' social paradigm is more harmful than beneficial to our psychological makeup.