Researchers found college students who tried to cut their social media use to 30 minutes per day scored significantly lower for anxiety, depression, loneliness and fear of missing out at the end of the two-week experiment and when compared to the control group.
I never really used social media because I had such massive social anxiety. But I did used Reddit (a short time) and YouTube
Reddit was easier because it had such montonic boring far-left content smeared everywhere. I just uninstalled the app and poof it was gone. I had urges to reuse it, but it was short lived
YouTube was much harder because of its very good recommendation algorithm. Even if I uninstalled it, I couldn’t stop myself from reinstalling it after a while. If I managed to keep the mobile app at bay, there was the desktop web version waiting for me. After a lot of infighting with my addicted brain, I now have NewPipe with all the Trending, Subscribed, New Videos crap disabled. And on the desktop side, I redirect youtube.com to piped.video, another non-addicting YouTube frontend
I couldn’t have been happier in my life before because of this small change