Quitting and the Addiction of Social Media

I'm still on Twitter, though I'm not exactly sure why. I did, though, delete my Facebook account. I had failed to use it at all or very rarely in the past few years. Every now and then I would get a "I'm falling behind the times, better use it" or "sure it's filled with fake news but if you're not out there saying the truth fake news wins the day" kinda thing, but I realized that it just wasn't good for me. besides, given that Facebook is willing to back anyone with power/$$ over truth is now not only out in the open, not only the way they operate, but the very basis of their "democratic" system, that my voice has no chance there. 
So, dear reader, I've quit it for good. My Instagram (IG) was also deleted some time ago. I do my collages and all on flickr, which, for the most part means no one sees them, but my social media-fu is such that this is a marginal difference to a place where, ostensibly, I can get millions of viewers. 
This isn't to claim there is no value in social media (there is some, but I imagine it's fast approaching a low low number), but that if there is value there, I'm not getting it. 
So I'm off there and will keep at the writing in different forms. 
Some time back I wrote about different ways for a writer to use social media (in which the story would not be in 148 character or what have you form but each avatar a character) to tell a story. It has come to pass that people are doing just that with the video aspect of IG and other platforms. No, I'm not claiming some original idea, just that it's interesting that this is the least innocuous part of what has come from social media. 
Using psych warfare and other ways of targeting people,  many people have managed to grow fake news into a reality. My shorts are much like this (in turn my shorts are descendants of Borges' writing where a fake encyclopedia entry becomes his reality) but it matters not since the other form has the $$ to have a bigger loudspeaker. 
Well, I'm choosing to no longer live in that reality. Here's hoping to you doing the same.
Thoughts?
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