How to achieve sweet social media sanity

If you want to stay sane do the following:

1. Delete social media apps from your phone. This forces you to go to the official websites, all of which are hot garbage. In this way you turn Facebook and Twitter into read only access points and/or broadcast mediums. If you are not a public figure or trying to sell something you should consider social media a parasite and not worth engagement.
2. Use TweetDeleter to delete all your old Tweets. There are some people out there who believe Twitter is akin to the Library of Congress and that their zingers should be kept for posterity. Get over yourself. Delete that shit. Anything on social media that is older than 24 hours is food for robots who want to sell you something. It’s far harder to delete all your Facebook posts but there are some tools that can help.
3. Delete your Instagram account. Instagram is brain cancer.

4. Unfollow everyone on Twitter. If you’re using Mac OS you need to use ruby and a program called t. The instructions for installing it are quite simple. To do it open your terminal application and type:

ruby -v

You should see something like

ruby 2.3.7p456 (2018–03–28 revision 63024) [universal.x86_64-darwin18]