The documentary felt so relatable to the depressed and gullible me that it helped me snapped back to reality. I just stopped caring about all social media and focused on my future. My main focus at the time was getting my grades back up, studying for the SAT, and just hoping that I get into a great university. The more I kept myself busy, the less I did social media. However, according to Dumenco’s article of If We’re all So Sick of You, Facebook, Why Can’t We Quit You?, explains how even though the number of people using Facebook dropped based on a survey, Facebook claims users that haven’t been on for four weeks as “active users”. It also states “Facebook is using the oldest trick in the digital- marketing book –email- to keep those users who are sick of Facebook from abandoning it entirely”. Even though there are people who are trying to stop the use of social media, like myself, we still get notified thru email which tempts us to go back to Facebook. In my case, when I did receive the emails from Facebook, I did feel somewhat tempted. However, I regained myself and logged back in just to unsubscribe and block email notifications. By the end of my junior year of high school, I stopped using Facebook for
The documentary felt so relatable to the depressed and gullible me that it helped me snapped back to reality. I just stopped caring about all social media and focused on my future. My main focus at the time was getting my grades back up, studying for the SAT, and just hoping that I get into a great university. The more I kept myself busy, the less I did social media. However, according to Dumenco’s article of If We’re all So Sick of You, Facebook, Why Can’t We Quit You?, explains how even though the number of people using Facebook dropped based on a survey, Facebook claims users that haven’t been on for four weeks as “active users”. It also states “Facebook is using the oldest trick in the digital- marketing book –email- to keep those users who are sick of Facebook from abandoning it entirely”. Even though there are people who are trying to stop the use of social media, like myself, we still get notified thru email which tempts us to go back to Facebook. In my case, when I did receive the emails from Facebook, I did feel somewhat tempted. However, I regained myself and logged back in just to unsubscribe and block email notifications. By the end of my junior year of high school, I stopped using Facebook for