Are there any fellow teens that have de-Googled and removed all social media?

Wild Bill@midwest.social to Chat@beehaw.org – 80 points –

Hello.

I am part of the younger side of Lemmy, and I wonder if there are any teens or otherwise young people that have de-Googled and/or removed all social media.

I notice, that everybody around me in real life uses Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, what have you… hundreds of notifications and messages from other people… and I cannot really relate. I deleted Instagram for my mental health, as some posts were greatly affecting my self-esteem. If somebody were to ask me for my social media, I’d probably just give them my number.

I don’t really know a lot of people around me that have this interest of online privacy (let alone people my age). So, will the (young) users of Lemmy enlighten me?

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I'm 16 and I dont use any social media exept lemmy and Youtube. I degoogled my phone and quit social media 1.5 years ago and I cant really complain

YouTube is Google bud

never said that I fully degoogled

If you say I de-googled, that statement implies that you don't use Google.

my android is degoogled as in I dont run Google Services on my phone. I use youtube through a 3rd party app