Anyone else burned out on social media???

I think as well that part of it may just be that SO MUCH social media is like this now, and there's just so many social media platforms. Back in like 2005-2007, you might have had Myspace, a xanga, a web blog, or a Facebook. Unless you wanted to specifically decorate it that way, it wasn't sensory overload the way apps are today. It was that ONE platform for you. And you checked it (nee, HAD TO check it) on a desktop computer, maybe you were lucky enough to have your own computer, but many kids/teens/young adults didn't.

But once Smartphones and high speed wifi became the norm in the 2010s, then suddenly, all these other apps burst forth out on the scene. As friends/colleagues/family gravitated toward one platform over the other, it just became overwhelming. Messenging apps like Whatsapp or Kik or Snapchat, more art-centric ones like Tumblr, hobby ones like Pinterest, video ones like Vine/Muscal.ly/Tiktok, photo-centric Flickr/Photobucket/Instagram. "Trends, trends, trends, you better hop on the trend train before everyone leaves without you" is how it felt sometimes. UGH. It was all too much trying to keep up with all these different apps IMO and that's one reason that it was time for those apps to go for me, even if it meant missing out on certain friends' thoughts/experiences.