Antisocial media

As we seemingly drift further and further into the past I recently made the decision to 'give up' social media.
Will already doesn't have it, he got rid of Facebook a while ago, as he just didn't enjoy it and didn't have much reason to use it. He doesn't have a smart phone anyway so tends to get in touch with people by texting or calling rather than online messaging.
We don't have a computer anymore - ours broke a little while ago and we have no real reason to have it fixed, so the only way I have been using social media (Facebook and Instagram) is through my phone  and I have found that because I have it on me I have been using it more and more. I've been aware of this and hated it, but used the excuse that it is just the way things are done these days and if I didn't have it I'd be out of the loop (exactly how they want you to feel) and of course I needed Instagram for my 'career'. But is any of that worth checking my phone umpteen times a day? No.
Do I feel any less social since ditching it? No not really. I have spoken to people less, but if I want to see people I can go to various groups in the village or give someone a ring.
I can't say that it has freed me up hours in the day that I didn't know I had, I suspect the people who say that we're using it more than I was, however i can say I am no longer feeling a strange anxiety that I hadn't even realised was there, but which I am enjoying the absence of.
There's not much else to say on that really. There are a lot of reasons I have given it up; I have concerns about information about me being visible to people I hardly know, I have concerns about my information being stored and sold, I have concerns about the 'compare and despair' effect of looking at other people's lives all the time, and I have big concerns about being a mother and a wife who is only 'half there' half the time.
When we are working so positively to improve and simplify our lives, having a large digital tie seems so at odds with that it is absurd. None of the things we want can't be got through just living in the real world.
And that's that. Perhaps instead of mindlessly scrolling now I'll remember to actually update this blog once in a while!!