Deleting Social Media Saved Me

I completed the 21-Day Daniel Fast to strengthen my relationship with God. During my fast, I also fasted from social media. In this video
I share how deleting social media forced me to face my problems and reclaim my mind.

My Socials:

[sweetpoptart]

Deleting social media will show you 2 things:
1. Who your real friends are.
2. Who you truly want to be friends with and those you actually care about.

[Saved.by.Jesus.]

As a man I deleted Instagram because there was so much troubling image on Instagram and social media, like naked women and over sexualization. It was bad for my spirit so I deleted all the apps and left Facebook completely. It felt so good!!! I don’t know why people give it so much relevance.

[PGOuma]

I tried and realized that everyone on social media is fake. No one actually cared about me and only cared about numbers and likes and the attention I gave them, which sucks

[Zhariyah]

Yes! I just deleted my social media, I was wondering why I didn’t have much time to do anything and why time was moving by so fast it’s because I was mindlessly scrolling for hours

[Xyzeezeezee]

Same. I deleted mine too and ghosted everyone. I’m by myself now but I’m at so much peace. Good for you! Congratulations on your progress. ❤

[irishcountrygirl]

Social media will steal all your days. I don't have it, l had it for a week once about 8 years ago, so glad you young people are waking up, you are next up, we need you. You are the future.

[QUEENMONROE-rs]

I am psychologist and I can no longer use social media... And plus if you love a abundant life In real life people on social media not going to show you love .. 😭😭 since I deleted social media I bought a house and got married and started a small business....

[DominqueAyu]

I love this. This is actually how I feel I'm always distracted and run to social media for relief. I need to find relief in God. This video is my final straw for me to put down my phone and pick up my bible. Thank you.

[ashleyncarter]

I LOVE that you said God called you to get off social media. I felt the same. I’ve been a week without Instagram and it’s great. Instagram isn’t even that great and is just constant comparison. I’ve used this time to focus on school and grow closer to God and I feel like I can finally hear him better now. I use that extra hour to talk to him and read the word and pray in the morning and at night rather than scroll. I was having trouble putting my phone down when going to bed because of Instagram and tiktok. I feel like I’m breaking my addiction

[dj_bubbs-TXQ]

It’s been 22 months since I left social media. I have no regrets at all.

I got sick of people gossiping, drama, negativity & people faking their lives & friendships and sharing everything that should be private or craving attention with provocative pictures & selfies.

A number of things I realised:

1. People who added me as “Friends” didn’t really care about me. They were “So called Friends”

2. When I was going through my hardest times, including anxiety, upset, trauma and stress, Nobody was REALLY there for me or reached out to me.

3. Certain posts or videos get blown out of proportion or completely taken out of context even if it’s nothing negative.

4. People lie about the amount of friends they REALLY have. Who in the REAL world has 100s or 1000s of friends WHO??

5. Communication is very one sided. The same person had to make the first move to start a conversation as the other person doesn’t make an effort themselves or just can’t be bothered.

6. People lie about their lives, they only show the positive side of theirs lives which doesn’t show the real truth about the person. You can’t tell and don’t see if someone is REALLY depressed, upset, isolated, lonely, feeling suicidal or what’s actually going on in their actual lives. Even if people post how they really feel, people don’t always care.

7. It makes people fake and insecure. It’s not just school kids or teenagers in college or university, but adults as well are being fake & insecure.

8. People compare themselves to others just to get more “likes” & comments.

9. Social media has increased loneliness, isolation. Anxiety and depression which can be severe.

10. Due to social media and the increase in technology, it’s causing destruction & destroying peoples lives in the sense of their is no sense of unity, community, love and nobody wants to help each other. If they see someone doing something constructive and productive and they’re doing well, people will laugh at them in an act of ignorance, and cannot wait for them to fall down.

11. Having a proper conversation or being real is considered not normal and people think it’s creepy. People don’t like having real conversations

12. It’s made people to be narcissists, self entitlement, ignorant, prejudice and bullies.

13. People can say things or make comments that are abusive, racist, sexist, ignorant, prejudice, misogynist, homophobia, xenophobia, discrimination openly online, rather than to your face.

14. I have seen Boys & Girls take provocative, selfies / pictures to get attention from so called friends / strangers, sometimes in a negative way, for example, woman having their chests hanging out, body image, men & women showing off muscles, six pack & more.

15. With social media & the young generation with regards to friendships, people feel that if they add someone as friend request and they accept it, they automatically think that’s “friends for life” people need to realise that’s not how friendship really works.

16. People will not hang around with other people WHO DON’T have social media. They look at those people as boring, lame and not cool.

I never had TikTok, Twitter or Instagram. Glad I didn’t sign up to any of them. Facebook was the only social media platform I had and it was recommended to me back when I was in my 20s.

I only use YouTube as I can look at interesting things like cooking recipes and motivation videos and music videos of festivals & concerts and more fun stuff.

I enjoy going out in nature, going for walks, bowling listening to music and learning new hobbies and watching movies.

Since leaving it’s been the best decision of my life. I enjoy life more, I can now enjoy doing the things I do or want to try without being judged or told what to do without being made to feel guilty.

I feel more happier and a massive weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

I think if social media disappeared forever, I can guarantee people will spend REAL quality time with friends and family. People will know who their REAL friends are and that they will do things together and have a good time doing it. I also feel that people will have proper conversations and listen and engage.

[GreedyGreedent]

I deleted my social media about a week and a half ago to take the slower approach of life and to also get closer to God. Time flies when youre doom scrolling all day long and Tiktok is such a negative platform-yet it was the hardest one for me to delete.

[Highly_Chronic]

I deleted social media I just got tired of seeing a bunch of people on there posting pics or saying alot of nonsense and honestly I felt good deleting it I'm more happy I was always the type that would smoke marijuana and post videos I guess to show off but then I quit social media I quit marijuana I really started to focus more on my mental health and peace and my growth I feel like I'm more alive.

[avgholson]

This is a WORD. I am taking your message into 2024. God I am listening.

[mszrchelleee]

I feel like this is Gods calling for me and I unconsciously just deactivated my instagram because I feel the same. I have 77k followers and I felt the obligation of posting. I am on a new journey of building and strengthening my relationship with God. Thank you for this♥️

[Just-theory]

It really works. I had to do a social media cleanse when i was in college and suddenly i was able to recall information, write better and create much easily.

[realpristine]

Scrolling just gives me the lowest vibrations these days, I’m definitely ready to delete social media

[deadaccount]

I quitted Instagram, X (Twitter), TikTok and Tumblr, and I never looked back. Best decision of my life!

[c-ybueze]

You had me at "God told me to".
I quickly hit the Subscribe button after that. Thank you

[nathananderson]

This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my YouTube channel 7 months ago about self development. Now I have 644 subs and > 100 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place.

[lts]

I deleted my social media abruptly and found the power, I didn't realize why but I realize God wanted me to strengthen my relationship. It's also so weird we deleted it the same time 😂! I'm a filmmaker and I feel as though God wants me to post too