It’s been five years since I uninstalled the application of Facebook from my phone and never installed it ever again, right after I watched the documentary “A social Dilemma”. After a year or so, I deactivated my main Facebook account, and only used an alternative one with no friends, just to be able to administrate pages and groups that I had created in the past. I was only activating my main account when I needed to use Facebook as a tool, to communicate actions, such as animal rescues and crowd fundings for which I needed people to help me spread the word. Each time I was re-activating that account though, I was realizing that less and less people were seeing what I was posting. Also, I often couldn’t exchange messages. People were telling me that they were receiving my messages but Facebook wasn’t allowing them to reply, saying that “this account doesn’t exist” or something similar. At some point I realized that what was Facebook helping me to achieve years ago, it could no longer help me to achieve at that time. As a result, I see no point in keep using this platform so 1,5 year ago I gave my groups to other admins and deactivated the Fb page of Ethos & Empathy (which I did activate now, just to check if the algorithm will show it to anyone, but no luck so far).<\/p>\n
In the meantime, I started using Instagram instead but as the time was passing by, I didn’t enjoy the experience of using Instagram either. I could understand that it was becoming addictive and I could see how it was affecting human relationships and how people were changing from the moment that they started using this platform. I could see the egos floating everywhere and how this platform feeds narcissism and insecurities. So, I started deactivating this account too (by this time, I had stopped using my personal account and was only using the activist one, for Ethos & Empathy but later on, I renamed it as I was thinking to stop posting anything here) and I even got criticized by some people for that, as if I had to ask permission for the use of social media platforms that I was deciding for myself!<\/p>\n
At last, just some months after I moved to Sweden, I heard about a seminar that took place early in September, on the alternative social media platforms that exist out there, which you can watch here:<\/p>\n