I Deleted Facebook and I’m So Happy

Finally some peace for myself and everyone around me.

I created a Facebook account when I was thirteen. If you ask me, I was way too young. My parents were constantly “creeping” on what I was saying or who I was talking to, then there was the time where a relative told my parents I was “doing drugs at a concert” when D.R.U.G.S. was just the band’s name, and then there’s the countless political arguments I was in with people I’d never even met.

Now I deleted it.

30 days ago, I finally said “enough is enough.” Personally, the only Facebook-branded services I used were Instagram and Facebook Marketplace. So I cut out any Facebook-specific service. And who could delete Instagram? Not me.

This isn’t a “social media cleanse” because if I’m not working or binge-watching Law & Order, I’m probably either watching this guy impersonate Shrek on TikTok or scrolling mindlessly through Twitter.

But Facebook showed me that enough was enough.

A lot is wrong with tech companies like Amazon and Google, but of the major players, Mark Zuckerberg is the only original CEO still at the company following Jeff Bezos’ step-down last month. Facebook continues to have a toxic relationship with the community, the public, and their consumers. They are…