i closed all my social media accounts and now only use Reddit with an anonymous handle that cant be (easily) traced back to my real name. i think that part abo

i closed all my social media accounts and now only use Reddit with an anonymous handle that cant be (easily) traced back to my real name. i think that part about using your real name is where you can get into toxic behaviors. you upload your best pictures, compare yourself to others, etc. if youre hust a handle its easier to just engage in discussion. an interesting note, when i first decided to leave fb/ig, my first baby step was to deactivate my account (instead of deleting it). my thinking was if I wanted to, i could come back. 4 times it happened to me, that out of nowhere id get an email from fb: "so and so tagged you in a photo". id click the link and discover my fb was again active without my consent. after the fourth time i took the definitive step of deleting it completely and even then i got a message: we received your delete request, but we're going to keep your account for 30 days, if you don't login in that time then we'll actually delete it. geesh man, they really don't want you to go