Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off social media altogether
I quit Facebook last year because it started ruining my family relationships. I started seeing the side of people that I never saw before and I didn't like it. I saw family & friends say and do things that were done to grab other people's attention. I also saw people, that I knew very well, pretend to be something they were not. I saw friends become enemies over pointless arguments.<p>In short, people I was interacting with on Facebook were, most of the time, not the people I knew in real life.<p>After I quit Facebook for 6 months, I attended family reunions and everything was back to the way it was. I stopped looking at them through the lens that Facebook presented them as and I felt no animosity or disdain towards them.<p>Maybe this is just my experience.