I'm not sure I buy that not using social media is the linchpin of my career, but I take his point that it's largely a waste of time to be reasonable. I have al

I'm not sure I buy that not using social media is the linchpin of my career, but I take his point that it's largely a waste of time to be reasonable. I have all the major social media services and I use them occasionally (for example: I don't install the apps, I just login from a browser). I think the bigger message that I take from this: 1. Some people are probably "addicted" or at least habituated in a way that makes social media actively negative in their lives. 2. For the rest of us, maybe some see value in social media and others don't. I'm in (2): I take the "does doing X enrich my life?" approach to social media. Maybe once or twice a week I log on and see if anyone had anything personally interested happen. If so, great, if not or if it's just not something I want to spend brain on, I just keep scrolling. I've got other places to spend my time and I recognize that passively consuming a feed isn't enriching my own growth - so I don't do it. For the people in (1), it's a very different story. They may be using social media to an active detriment. Not sure how you get there, but to quote the psychologist in Annihilation: "Almost none of us commit suicide, whereas almost all of us self-destruct." I guess for some folks, that's social media - it's destructive to the point that bloggers need to write articles about quitting it. Or maybe it's just more clickbait since that's our world now.