Social services have evolved even further into becoming sticky traps for doomscrolling and AI-generated slop, and are hitherto unprecedented frontiers for rage bait.
Bummed out about all the misinformation and being part of a profit machine that funds one increasingly unhinged billionaire or another? Well, there’s a way out.
Unfortunately, social media companies don’t always make it very easy to rescind their grips on your attention.
They bury deletion and deactivation options deep in their sidebars and menus and do everything in their power to keep you engaged and scrolling.
It’s not always easy, but if you’re eager to exorcise the demons of social media from your life, here’s how to carry out those cleansing rituals.
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Meta always seems to be in the midst of one controversy or another. Whether it be the company’s history of a wanton approach to user privacy,
criticism over its addictive nature, or its tendency to foster misinformation, you’ve got your pick of reasons to feel sketchy about having Meta plugged into your life.
Before its rebrand from Facebook to Meta, the different sites in the Zuckerberg empire were siloed, and if you wanted to leave one network,
you had to cancel your account from within that app or website. Now, your accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and Meta’s AI app can be deleted from a central hub, called Meta Accounts Center.
Tap that link. Log in, then you should see all your Meta profiles tied to that account. To actually start deleting things,
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