Your relationship with social media can change when your reasons for using it change.
In this archived post, I described coming back to social media after four years away from most platforms. I had kept LinkedIn for hiring and investors. At that point, I wanted to connect with people and share dua’s mission.
The caption is direct about taking responsibility for the accounts you follow, the content you consume and the time you give it. That does not mean every difficult online experience is your fault. It means there are choices worth examining within your own use.
Choose your relationship with social media
Look at a normal session. What brought you to the app? What kept you there? Did you leave with a useful idea, a real conversation or a feeling you want to understand? Ask those questions without turning the answers into a judgement of your character.
You can unfollow an account, change when you check your phone, or take a break. You can also keep the parts that serve a clear purpose. My own exception for LinkedIn was an example of using a platform for something specific.
Make sharing a choice
If you want to share but feel hesitant, start with something you can stand behind: a question, an experience or work you are doing. Confidence does not require making your entire life public.
And if leaving is the right choice, you do not owe anyone a performance of being constantly available. The point of the post was to find your own relationship with these tools. Let that relationship change when your reasons for using them change.