Very well said, Samantha!

After realizing that I had become addicted to Facebook (I spent up to 16 hours every day actively online), I radically deleted all games and nearly 90% of my “Friends”. I restricted the friends list to extended family which is spread out over three continents. But eventually I reduced the contacts even further to only keep an eye my then teen daughters. I have not been able to log on for the last four years, and have not missed it one little bit!

The main reason for pruning my “Friends” list was the controversial postings by those relatives. None of them were personal to me. But at that time what your friends posted on their own walls got reflected onto your own wall an on to your others friends. So you became guilty by association.
For example one second cousin posted pictures bragging how they were getting drunk in the university dorm in the USA while being well below the legal age. Another who was a lawyer started a personal attack crusade against judicial corruption by attacking judges, including members of the supreme court, in public forums and social media. In retaliation the supreme court disbarred him, which just prompted more vicious attacks via various social media channels. Given that I was in a litigation war for the custody of my daughters, and having to contend with the gender and ethnic prejudice from the supreme court, I decided to clean my social media presence and prune all controversial contacts.

I have also seen way to much cyber-bullying and cyber-mobbing over social media to feel comfortable with maintaining a presence in such a hostile medium. Not to mention the rudeness of many people who will pull out their cell phone in the middle of a personal conversation in order to check a social media notification! For me that is showing a huge lack of respect.

Those are some of the reasons why I refuse to sign up for social media like Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc. I just do not need the aggravation involved with most of the social media. Based on my subjective observation I believe that there is a direct correlation between social media activity and the development of narcissist traits.

For me BCTS is all the “social media” I need and that I can stand.
So I will second Samantha's assertion:

I am not on any of the main Social Media platforms and I don't regret it. There is a life outside of social media.

Come on, Dorothy, try it for your yourself for the rest of this year!