why i don't participate in social media

• i don't want a constant stream of information coming at me all day long every day
• i don't want people in my life to only know me by what i curate on my social media feeds
• i don't want to alter my perception of myself regarding my personality or my physical appearance by curating my life and/or using filters
• i don't want to be part of the process of corporations and big business using social media to get us to sell their products and our lives to each other
• i don't want to cheapen the experiences i have by worrying about getting the perfect picture or thinking about how I'll relate the experience to others
• i don't want to compare myself or my life to others, nor do i want to make others feel envious or insecure about their own lives or choices
• i don't want to feel the pressures of interacting with other people on their social media even when i don't have a relationship with them
• i don't want to have to label and then sell my identity to others through a profile or pictures
• i don't want to live my life mimicking other people's special moments or purposely cultivating moments of my own to share - i want my special moments to happen organically and i want to enjoy them
• i want my life and relationships to be authentic and when you can edit everything about yourself, you're not going to be authentic
• i want my relationships with others to be grounded in experience and quality time, not interactions online
• i want to avoid anything addictive, especially mindless scrolling
• i want to avoid the constant false reassurance that everything i do matters and is important, because it's not - and i want to learn to be okay with my mortality
• i want to avoid the negative psychological effects of social media
• i want to avoid tying my identity to art, music, people, etc. and instead enjoy the things i enjoy easily
• i want to expand my perspective and world and i feel social media shrinks it and makes you lose perspective
• i want to focus my attention on things that mean more to me than social media
• when i post on social media, i am looking for a witness, validation, attention, and acknowledgment - i get those things from my God who loves me and i will never be fulfilled with what i get from others, especially online