If social media disappeared overnight, how would it change your life? By @Royricky09

I would be extremely happy for the world. It would do wonders for our ability to socialise, concentrate and be present in the real world. Social media is deliberately designed to constantly distract and manipulate us and waste our time, and it doesn't even enable meaningful communication and social contact. In fact, it does the exact opposite. I've just been reading a book, Stolen Focus by Johann Hari, which advocates banning it outright. That sounds extreme, but it's probably what needs to happen.

CharmedandStitched · 26-30, F

Not much initially at face value, I don't use it a lot personally. One downside, I wouldn't be able to advertise my knitting and dress creations as easily. One positive, the kids I teach wouldn't be so addicted to it. Everything has its good or bad sides.

Raaii · 22-25, F

It'll not change anything like my life will be still be the same horrible life but I guess at the end it's just all about the friends I've made here online, I'll miss them more , life feels Little bearable when I've such good n caring friends

Gingerbreadspice · F

I wouldn’t be able to contact a lot of people. I wouldn’t be able to easily book appointments or find someone to help me out with anything. I wouldn’t be able to see if there are other people in the world just like me. Initially life wouldn’t be so easy but people would stop being lazy. I would forget all about (him) and I would move on.

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

Return me to my childhood. Provided that it was universal, there are aspects of that that would be very welcome: it might bring back more constructive, objective journalism in broadcast and print media. But OMG, the work in manually scoring my Fantasy Baseball League from the weekly box scores in Baseball Weekly 😱

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

I've reduced my social media to just three sites since covid started.

Once it became clear how governments and the big social media companies either lied or used it for disinformation to promote a point of view, much of it proved irritating (and still does)