Does social media stress you out?

I've been distancing myself from it slowly over the last year or so. I completely deactivated Facebook, and now I am only on Instagram sporadically. I have found it raises my anxiety and also I don't like feeling addicted to anything in life. When I found myself checking Instagram and Facebook first thing every morning - I knew it was time to take action.

Yes. Social media stresses me out. There's actually already a topic about it on here.

I get so tired of people who are supposed to be a "friend" blocking me, subjecting me to that stupid taped up thumb, 'this has been removed or is not available at the moment' crap. People I met last year when I was part of the filming for Redcon-1 turned to be arseholes.

Why do people need to spy on others using Facebook anyway? Some things are better left in the past. If they feel happy with their lives and don't want you around, then so be it. Try meeting new people using Meetup instead. Unlike Facebook, Meetup is a website that can get you meeting people who like the same topics, hence the name. To hell with their lives anyway. If they want to ignore people and act snippy towards you because they think you are a loser now, then I guess you cannot make them accept you any more than you can suck it up and find people who won't be arseholes. This world has too much convolution in it as it is.

I'll admit though that when I'm aching for a ride, I'm right back on stupid adult websites again wasting my money. They well and truly suck for meeting quality women with manners, though.

It can, so I don't go on it too often.

Yes, I went through a great deal of stress. I shrank my friend circle and cut back on the time I spent as a result. But now the stress is back - and worse. I am getting frustrated and angry at the disgusting views people I know have been posting regarding racism and inequality. I really has me worked up. Now my real life circle is shrinking too.

Wow... that's a really hard life lesson. My heart goes out to you!
It seems so hard right now, but it may be good for you in the end. Ending our relationships with toxic or negative people can only bring good into our life Keep on your path to positivity!

Facebook, as a social media platform, isn't reality. It really isn't. You shouldn't take people's Facebook lives seriously, because it's all about image control. You can distort your digital reality to others, based on what content you post. For instance, I have a Facebook friend whom I've never hung out with in real life, she just wanted to add me to her 1500+ FB friends, some of whom, are mutual high school friends from real life. I never had a problem with her in high school, but we ran in different circles. And 25 years later, I don't have anything in common with her except our mutual high school friends. In reality, I know we wouldn't be that great of friends because we just don't see the world the same way. She's very superficial compared to me as far as her values versus my values.

After I added her (eh, no big deal), I noticed she LOVES to post selfies of herself smiling all the time. Can we say Glamour Shots? I mean, she can't get enough of herself! Haha! Whereas, my profile picture on FB is just of a chair. She also posts a lot of political posts and social activism posts. And pictures of herself. All the time. Every other day, she posts a new selfie. It's pretty funny. She has over 1500+ FB friends. I have no idea if she even spends time with half of those people in real life. Eh, not my concern.

I have less than 100 FB friends, because I don't need to add random strangers, or mutual acquaintances like I see a lot of people do. I don't know why people need 5,000 friends on Facebook, unless they're operating their own business and see those people as potential customers.

I used to care about whether or not someone "liked" my posts, but now I really don't. I like to post news articles from my Facebook news feed, or post funny one-liners as a status update. I rarely write personal status updates on Facebook, and I use it to follow my favorite bands, writers, filmmakers, and some other organizations locally where I live.

I love Meetup. Meetup is face-to-face reality, where you can meet people who like the same things that you do. But Facebook? It isn't reality. It used to stress me out to use it, until I realized it's not reality, it's just a social media application. There's so many of those to choose from, it's insane. I don't have an Instagram. I don't have Twitter. I don't have any social media other than Facebook, and email.

Real life. Is where it's at.

Unfortunately, people's pathetic hateful and dumb views are a reality.

I was on Meetup too, but I let my tongue run away with me, and then some woman omitted me from a horror films group. Seriously!

Have you seen videos about my DVD collection on YouTube? Nobody can touch me there. So getting blacklisted from a group like that where I should feel at home, over getting accused of being a beast I'd assume, is just wrongful. Some groups are one of a kind or special, which makes it even more upsetting. However, this has been a recurring theme in my life.

People meet me. Everything is fine at first. Then oddballs who know me proceed to deliberately advertise crap about me to start a fire, then the people I like begin blowing things out of proportion, and believing these broadcasters must be on point, because people spread crap about me, and they get won over somehow. It has no effect on their precious lives or sanity, yet I have to live with the consequences of betrayal (like with Sara). It has been the same song and dance now for years. I've met some people who could have easily been in my top ten list of top people I loved as a friend, yet they pissed that away by stabbing me in the back.

I had been frustrated at not being able to get people to attend social events with me due to my extreme anxiety, so I just started spewing about my woes as usual, and when you say honest things about suffering through legal problems and other stuff that is annoying, they obviously will assume the worst, and you're branded a plague carrier in their eyes. Like they're supposed to be angels.

Last year, I went to some dungeon local to me where sadists use the venue to perform BDSM acts. Some are totally sick too, but I'm only into the kinky side of it, and I thought I should try it, if it means improving my sexual desire (although some mistresses strictly frown upon that). Well, I met some Spanish woman there and we had sex, then I went on some forums talking about mostly my sexual health issues, my personal problems, and more. You'd think I'd have learned not to flap my gums about my private affairs, but life just gets to me, so I just attract more abuse.

Anyway, another mistress (or dominatrix in Glasgow) ended up sending an email to the owner since I clearly stated that I'd gone there, and she probably decided to bar me, and she and other people made a fool of me on Twitter. I've spoken to the Spanish lady I saw since on Twitter. She uses the pseudonym Ivy I assume, but I think she lied to me about not returning to Edinburgh, as she comes from Madrid, but I'm sure she still flies across to Scotland now and then, as she lists both Madrid and Edinburgh on her profile. She enticed me to come back after I saw her the first time, and we ended up not seeing one another for coffee as she started lying to me. But I'm so sick of people black balling me.

And we know about my situation with that actress as well. My Facebook accounts are still being shut down, for some unknown reason. Even when I send a photo to prove it's me when I'm forced to provide one, they just lock my account, and no explanation is provided. I'm sick of being mistreated. Autistic people deserve to have a good social life. A fulfilling intimate life. Steady employment. Etc.

I don't use social media anymore,
And even when I do on the rare occasion I do, I will just browse for a little bit until I start to get bored and then i stop

You guys need a video embed tag on here. Just pointing that out. Thanks.

It stresses me out sometimes, sure. But I can come on here and be stressed by someone's posts. It's all how I deal with it.

Most of my FB feed is friends and family, with a few self-help gurus I like to read about.

I've always enjoyed reading the replies from people on here. It's a forum that has a great atmosphere. Unlike some other forums I've been to, which I won't name.