6 objective reasons to delete your social accounts

Social networks have become part of our life and require more and more serious treatment. Someone gets fired from their job for posting on Facebook, and another was not hired for a promising position because of a cheeky tweet. For a thoughtless phrase, carelessly published in a social network, you can really sit down.

However, we are adults. We can and must be held accountable for our actions. What about children? Is it worth involving them on the social web before they can decide for themselves whether to be in this digital world or not?

We invite you to think about the reasoning of Kim Shendrow - a person who has personally faced the consequences of a careless attitude towards social networks.

However, there are more general reasons why you should delete your social media accounts. Consider this list:

1. Facebook makes you think your life sucks

People post only positive moments of their lives on social media. Failures and disappointments remain behind the scenes. As a result, looking through the feed of friends, you may get the impression that their lives are entirely made up of only successes, joy and accomplishments, and yours is not. This is a dangerous illusion.

2. Mom won't let me talk to strangers

But Facebook's friend search algorithm thinks the other way around. He wants strangers to be your friends. The more, the better. Every day, the social network tries to slip me people who are "friends of my friends." This stream is diluted by people from my past - those many of whom I would like to forget. It also contains my cousin, who passed away 2 years ago.

3. Your boss reads you

These are the times when posting on Facebook can lead to losing your current job and losing your chance to get jobs in many promising places in the future. In Foxboro, USA, a man was fired for posting a photo with a swastika painted on the body of a drunk friend. There, teachers are fired for taking pictures of them drinking alcohol. One venerable female teacher was fired for refusing to remove current students from her friendships. Even if you shield your posts from specific personalities, your foe can whisper your messages and photos to your boss.

4. Your Facebook “friends” don't care about your little joys and events

Seriously, there are hardly many individuals on your friend list who were really curious to know that your kitten is finally litter-trained. You need to be able to filter things based on reasons for being published. Dads, moms, stop posting photos and events with children when there are awkward moments. In the future, this can be used for ridicule and mockery of your children.

5. You will stop messing around at work

Well, or at least you will spend a little less time on idleness. It's no secret that Facebook is a great time waster. In the United States, such gatherings on social networks during working hours result in $ 28 billion in losses to employers annually.

6. The consequences of your revelations

There is such a mood when you want to admit some mistake or failure. And you write about it on Facebook. And this is read by friends, acquaintances, neighbors, colleagues. And they remember this at a personal meeting. And you will see it in their eyes, and maybe you will hear it behind your back. What makes people deliberately belittle the qualities of their personality in the eyes of others?

Everything that is written here within the framework of Facebook applies to any other social service. With a sufficient level of insanity, the social network may well spoil life. What do you think makes people behave this way in a digital environment? What reasons made you abandon social networks or reconsider the format of interaction with them?