Comment From experience (Score 3, Interesting) 103
I quit posting to social media in 2018, for two main reasons:
1. It is clear attention has become the new currency on the Internet. Everybody is so desperate for attention that they are willing to sacrifice anything to gain their 5 minutes of fame. No wonder why people are comparing it to work: it has become the livelihood of some.
2. I got tired of being the product. No wonder why a handful can earn more on social media than a blue collar job, but if you are willingly feeding the system and you still did not realize how much of your privacy and life you lost without any sort of compensation, I only feel sorry for you.
I still have accounts I use to read content, but not a single new post has been made for 8 years. It is leisure to me, and given no app is installed, there is much less for them to profit from me.