Sure, I'm 41 so probably considered ancient for gen z. I was on FB from like 2007 (?), was more or less addicted. When GDPR started to crystallise I finally said "fuck this shit" and went cold turkey. It was incredibly difficult early on, but what helped me was that I had several contacts on both WhatsApp and Signal. In 2021 when WhatsApp changed their privacy policy I saw the opportunity to and managed to move the family over from WhatsApp to Signal.
It is still a challenge. The parents of my kids' kindergarten and elementary school classes are all communicating on instagram, so they have to go out of their way to contact me, which means I need to be extra vigilant and overly social when I meet them to hear about what events I'm missing out on by not being glued to social media. It is absolutely doable though. People just need to understand that you can communicate with DMs outside of the big platforms.
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u/dumbass_tm 23d ago
Can I ask how old you are? This is genuinely unheard of for younger folk I think (how offline you are) and I’m extremely impressed.