Can someone survive without being on social media?

Why I am Cutting the Cord on Social Media

I am about to do the experiment. Cut the cord. Delete the accounts.

Maybe even go back to snail mail.

I have noticed some interesting trends on the platforms over this last year specifically, as I tried to create some of my most meaningful works. The main observation… crickets on all my social medias.

I am not moving needles, making gains. In short, I am not actually socializing on here. I could contemplate the “why” behind it, but it is not the point. (Unfiltered would be my guess.) (My self imposed alienation, my second guess.) (My inability to keep my mouth shut, my third.) The point is …consolidating my energy and my focus. Maintaining a calm nervous system is my only priority. And the medias jack it up.

The Impact of Algorithms on Mental Health

I never ever wanted to be on social media. I did so bc it was the way the comedy world was going and I managed to hold out until 2009. I hated every minute except that it brought me Mike. So if that was the goal, check and check. And check please!

I have crossed major things off my bucket list this last year and assumed I needed the medias. That said, me and the medias…were never really friends. I stuck with it from necessity.

Now I have to say, my spidey senses are waaaaaaay up with the pace of AI. And as I have been known to be the one to yell- the British are coming- long before it is seen as sane, I think it is a great idea to not be all over the place and easily accessible.

Counterintuitive to business? Maybe? Maybe crazy like a fox? I will still grow online with my youtube channel, blog and website. But social media platforms are merely amounting to be a distraction. I have noticed no benefit, in fact, only disturbing the calm, as the algorithm is designed to be.

So this time rather than take the safety net of deactivation -“what if I lose a memory, a photo, a contact… the fear…so just deactivate don’t delete!!!” Nah. No. No. I think I have everything I have needed to gain from this social experience. And the courage to delete vs deactivate is huge. I think I am ready now.

Moving Beyond the Online Popularity Contest

I can release the past and start a new future without a numbers game and popularity contest that it had become in this shallow pursuit of comedy. The surface dwellers are just not where I want to keep my spirit. And surface seems to be the MO on social media. Curated profiles to gin up the FOMO. Not healthy. Not even real.

I am not sad just clear. I forced myself to be here. I hated it. I am a sensitive soul and quite unfiltered. I am done contributing to the Zuckerberg’s of the world and their manipulations.

How to Stay Connected in Real Life

Instead, I will be focused on my youtube- A Talk with Teri G. and blog with same name. (Website under my name.) If you want to keep in touch, subscribe to my channel, email me or call me and we can meet up in real life.

I will leave this here for a minute so any of the friendlies who read my stuff will know I didn’t unfriend or block them. I think this will be best.

Until we meet again.