7 types of accounts to unsubscribe from on social media

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

What's wrong with perfect photos and posts about "motherfuckers".

About three billion people are registered on social networks. On average, we spend two hours a day there. We want to learn something useful, relieve boredom and relax, but often we only earn depression, anxiety and other problems. At the same time, we choose the content that brings us so much trouble. Here are a few types of profiles to strip out of your feed forever.

1. Accounts of former partners

More than 60% of respondents admit that they browse the social networks of their former partners at least once a month. Someone cannot completely let them go, someone dreams of reunion, someone just wants to increase self-esteem and make sure that this bad person suffers after parting.

There are many reasons, but the result is usually deplorable: those who follow the ex cannot move on. These people feel the fear of lost profits and indulge in hopes that are unlikely to ever come true. In general, nothing good.

2. Blogs of bodyshamers

Because of social media, we love our body less and worry more about how it looks. Sometimes it just makes us feel bad, and sometimes it can lead to eating disorders. In addition, filters, masks and photographs taken from favorable angles add work to plastic surgeons: people are ready to undergo surgery, just to become like Instagram stars or their own successful selfies.

We look at pictures of ideal bodies, read about how bad it is to be fat and ugly, and start looking for flaws in ourselves.

Those who make us feel ashamed of our bodies - whether they are overweight, thin, or otherwise - are called bodyshamers. They can do it openly and aggressively - for example, calling subscribers fat cows or skinny herrings. Or they can take a more subtle approach: "Fat prevents you from revealing your beauty", "I can't imagine how you can eat hamburgers and give up training, I don't allow myself that."

Often, even those who seem to be in favor of a healthy lifestyle - fitness bloggers and nutritionists - are engaged in body shaming in one form or another. In any case, when reading something like this, insecure people feel bad and lose the remnants of self-esteem. Therefore, it is worth taking your own mental health into your own hands - and unsubscribing from all profiles that make you hate your body.

3. Incident channels

If you read some news channels and blogs, it may seem that maniacs are roaming the streets in herds, bloody murders with dismemberment occur every minute, all officials constantly steal billions, doctors maim patients, and teachers beat children.

Yes, all this, unfortunately, happens - and more often than we would like.

But bad news severely narrows our perspective and teaches us to see only the bad, ignore the good, and fall into thinking traps like selective perception or the availability heuristic. And of course, watching the news regularly increases your stress and anxiety levels.

If you cannot completely abandon extremely negative news, try at least diluting it with something more positive. For example, subscribe to pages that only talk about good and joyful events.

4. Accounts of distant acquaintances

Someone thinks that the subscriptions must necessarily be mutual: if they subscribe to you, it will be a good form to friend the person in return. And someone cannot delete from their feed former classmates, distant relatives and casual acquaintances who were once added, without particularly delving into their content.

In any case, almost everyone follows a couple of profiles, which are not particularly interesting to read.

So why waste precious time on them? If you can be offended for unsubscribing, just hide these accounts from your feed.

5. Profiles with alien values

A vegetarian will not be happy to read a blog about leather bags. A working mother is unlikely to benefit from an account that says that kindergartens are evil, and the child should be brought up exclusively at home. And any educated person will be perplexed by stories about the dangers of vaccinations or calls for discrimination and violence.

If someone's values openly contradict yours and such posts spoil your mood, then you are not on the way. Even if all these people or brands were once interesting to you.

6. Accounts of toxic people

Perhaps there are people among your subscriptions who simply cannot but offend someone. They constantly ridicule someone, post incorrect jokes and memes, endlessly get involved in some intrigues and scandals, get personal, try to hype on sensitive topics without understanding the issue and insulting huge groups of people.

They are the ones who post posts in the spirit of “How I put yazhem in place” or “Why women are dumber than men” - and enjoy the holivar in the comments. It is they who arrange stupid pranks, call for harassment, post other people's photos without permission, and so on.

These messages literally generate and multiply hatred. Which is already abundant both on the Internet and in the world in general.

You read this - and your hands reach out to scribble an indignant comment. But to act like poison because someone is wrong on the web is not the best way to pass your time. So toxic people should be a thing of the past. So are their social media profiles.

7. Blogs of outright liars

Social media has long turned into a large-scale vanity fair. Everyone is trying to present themselves from their best side: to erase all cellulite or to be photographed next to a rented foreign car, passing it off as their own. Display pictures of a happy family and a clean apartment, even if behind the scenes there are scandals, dirt and tattered wallpaper.

Instagram stars lie about bouquets and gifts that fans allegedly send them. Some travel bloggers post photographs from travels they have never taken. And we continue to look at it, even if we feel that somewhere there is a catch.

And we compare someone else's pseudo-ideal life with our own - real and far from perfect. Of course, the comparison turns out to be not in our favor - and we begin to eat ourselves from the inside. The best way to combat lies and falsehood on social media is to not support such content. And of course, don't cheat yourself.