Habits
Quitting social media
Across 12 answers, 67% said it helped a lot or more.
Fewer than 30 answers could give the top answer (a 10/10 or “changed my life”), too few to estimate how often it’s given.
All answers · 12 answers
- Life-changing
- Big help
- Slight help
- Did nothing
- Made it worse
Have you tried it?
Only answer if you've tried Quitting social media. What did it do for you?
What is it?
Quitting social media means stopping use of one or more platforms, temporarily or without a return date. You can remove an app without closing the account. People try it to reclaim scrolling time, reduce comparison or stop monitoring reactions.
Platforms can also contain friendships, communities and work. Leaving may mean missing conversations and plans as well as distractions. Deciding which contact you want to preserve elsewhere matters.
All answers
12 answers in total: 0 from surveys and 12 from this site.
- Life-changing: 33%, 4 votes
- Big help: 33%, 4 votes
- Slight help: 25%, 3 votes
- Did nothing: 8.3%, 1 vote
- Made it worse: 0%, 0 votes
What does it take?
Choose which services to leave and arrange another way to reach people you only know there. Consider the moments when you opened the app automatically. Removing it is quick; noticing that impulse can take repeated attempts.
Work may prevent a complete departure. Opening a platform to post something can become another browsing session. Keeping necessary use separate may be harder than promising never to return.
Why do people quit?
One message, photograph or event brings you back, and browsing continues afterwards. Boredom may also move the same behaviour into a different app while screen time remains unchanged.
You may genuinely miss people available through the platform. Restoring that contact does not erase the earlier experience. Returning without deciding what you want to do differently, however, can restore the old pattern too.
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Self-reported experiences, not medical advice. High scores mean people reported strong positive effects. They do not mean something is safe, effective long-term, or appropriate for you. Self-reports can miss delayed harms, dependence, withdrawal, side effects, and selection bias. Don't start or stop a medication because of a chart.
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