The problem isn't that social media is too addictive to abstain. The addictiveness is what keeps you hooked, not what gets you into it. The problem is that soc

The problem isn't that social media is too addictive to abstain. The addictiveness is what keeps you hooked, not what gets you into it. The problem is that social media is too addictive and also very difficult to avoid. For many jobs, social media has become if not integral then at least an implicit requirement ("please retweet our press release about new feature X"). It has also become a major news source, especially for niche or specialty topics (HN and reddit are "social media" too btw). Companies like Facebook (and to less success, Google) are trying everything to create onramps to their social media platforms wherever possible. In many places Facebook is used by municipality governments to post news updates, restaurants to post their opening hours and menu updates, and so on. "Social media abstinence" is not possible for everyone, difficult enough as it is once you've already been using social media.