I remember using Instagram and thinking "why am I just staring at their feed and hitting like? Why don't I just text them 'hey how are you?'" So I quit social m

I remember using Instagram and thinking "why am I just staring at their feed and hitting like? Why don't I just text them 'hey how are you?'" So I quit social media and now I just text them. The difference is obvious now: the former wasn't real interaction, the latter is. Biggest difference: actually being surprised in a conversation where you didn't know something that happened to somebody.