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Breaking free of the hold that social media apps had on me was a revelation

I Quit Social Media 6 Years Ago, I Wasn’t Ready for What Came Next


By Epoch Times ——--February 11, 2024

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I’ve been told I’m a unicorn: a 27-year-old with no social media accounts. I feel more like a horse that people put a horn on and say, “What? This is impossible!” Not using social media is, sadly, countercultural. But it isn’t impossible. It’s been about six years, and there’s no amount of money you could pay me to log back on.

It all began one fateful Lent in my senior year of college. Being Catholic, I follow the 40-day season of penance preceding Easter during which one chooses good habits to increase and bad ones to decrease. Thatyear, I decided to give up social media. ---More...


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