Social networks have become a part of our lives and require us to take them more and more seriously. Some people are fired from their jobs because of a Facebook post, while others are rejected from a promising position because of a cheeky tweet. You can actually sit down for a thoughtless phrase carelessly published on a social network.

However, we are adults. We can and must be responsible for our actions. What about children? Is it worth involving them in the social web before they themselves can decide whether to belong in this digital world or not?

We invite you to think about the reasoning of Kim Shendrow, a person who has personally encountered the consequences of a careless attitude towards social networks.

Some will say that I am a bad mother. Every day I talk about the lives and affairs of my children to hundreds of strangers. I have accumulated 1,549 people on my “friends” list, most of whom I have never spoken to or even seen. These so-called “friends” could tell you what my kids eat, how they are doing at school, what they love and hate.

Before my kids were old enough to articulate their resentment of my past actions, documenting life's moments on Facebook seemed like a good thing. Now that the children are getting older, their anger and resentment are growing stronger. This just creeps me out. Everything is going to the point that sooner or later I will have to delete my account.

Every time I post another photo of my kids jumping in the pool or sleeping curled up on the couch, I'm violating their privacy, and Facebook (and subsequently the entire Internet) won't forget. Will never forget.

However, there are more general reasons why you should delete your accounts on social networks. Consider this list:

1. Facebook makes you think your life sucks.

People only post positive moments in their lives on social media. Failures and disappointments remain behind the scenes. As a result, looking through your friends' feeds, you may get the impression that their lives consist entirely of success, joy and accomplishment, while yours is not. This is a dangerous illusion.

2. Mom won't let me talk to strangers.

But the Facebook friend search algorithm thinks the opposite. He wants strangers to become your friends. The more there are, the better. Every day the social network tries to feed me people who are “friends of my friends.” This flow is diluted by people from my past - those, many of whom I would like to forget. It also contains my cousin, who passed away 2 years ago.

3. Your boss reads you

These are the times when a Facebook post can get you out of your current job and away from many promising jobs in the future. In Foxboro, USA, a man was fired for publishing a photo with a swastika drawn on the body of a drunken friend. There, teachers are fired for photos in which they drink alcohol. One senior female teacher was fired because she refused to unfriend current students. Even if you keep your posts away from specific individuals, your enemy may whisper about your posts and photos to your boss.

4. Your Facebook “friends” don’t care about your little joys and events.

Seriously, it’s unlikely that there will be many people on your list of friends who were really interested in learning that your kitten is finally litter box trained. You need to be able to filter things based on whether there are reasons to be published. Dads, moms, stop posting photos and events with your children when “awkward” moments occur. In the future, this could be used to ridicule and mock your children.

5. You will stop slacking off at work.

Well, or at least you will spend a little less time on idleness. It's no secret that Facebook is a great time waster. In the US, such gatherings on social networks during working hours cost employers $28 billion in losses annually.

6. Consequences of your revelations

There are times when you want to admit to some mistake or failure. And you write about it on Facebook. And friends, acquaintances, neighbors, colleagues read this. And they remember this when they meet in person. And you will see it in their eyes, and maybe you will hear it behind your back. What makes people deliberately belittle their personality in the eyes of others?

Everything that is written here within Facebook is applicable to any other social service. With a sufficient level of insanity, the social network may well ruin your life. What do you think makes people behave this way in the digital environment? What reasons made you abandon social networks or reconsider the format of interaction with them?

Why do people delete themselves from social networks?

Social networks have become a part of every person's life. In fact, everyone has their own page on social networks, where all the information is posted. This is of course a great opportunity to communicate and meet new people, find old acquaintances...

Surely, many people catch themselves thinking that when we go online, we rush to go to our page, which can then take quite a long time. Now many are trying to delete the page.

There are many reasons, let's try to consider at least a few of them:

Firstly, they delete pages from social networks due to the desire to live “for real”.

Secondly, I delete pages from social networks because virtual acquaintance will never replace a real one.

Thirdly, pages are deleted from social networks because difficulties arise in communication.

Sometimes you don't even know where to start. This can affect not only your personal life, but also your career. Naturally, it’s easier to communicate when you don’t see the person on the other side of the monitor, but at the same time, complexes remain and increase, making them more difficult to overcome.

Fourthly, they delete pages from social networks due to disappointment: when you go to your page day after day, you don’t receive messages, no one is added as a friend...

Fifthly, pages are deleted from social networks because for a person who is in a relationship, the page can become a reason for jealousy, and sometimes even for breaking the relationship.

Virtual friends whom you met while still in the “actively searching” status can put you in an awkward position in front of your significant other.

Sixthly, they delete pages from social networks because of their career.

Applying for a new job, especially high positions, requires maintaining the image of a business person.

Under such pressure, a person tends to lose his true self, and the simplest solution is to delete the page. All the same, this will only partially reflect individuality; for this you will have to remove “frivolous” photographs... After all, now you represent the interests of the company for which you work.

Seventh, deleting a page from social networks due to the desire to stand out from the crowd.

Teenagers always strive to stand out from the crowd of their peers. The absence of a page on social networks can become a distinctive sign.

Eighth, deleting a page from social networks due to an unsuccessful online acquaintance.

Gradually, many come to the conclusion that there is no need to have a page on a social network, and besides, there is a wonderful opportunity to replace correspondence on social networks with communication on Skype, an excellent analogy to live communication.

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According to experts, the peak of registration of new users on social networks is long behind us. Nowadays, there are frequent cases of deleting one’s social pages, that is, one’s social network accounts.

And over time, he completely deletes his social network account. Virtual “friends” (friends) are shocked. They are perplexed and cannot understand the action of their, now “offline”, friend.

There are many reasons for leaving the world of virtual friends. But the main factors that most often influence the decision to click on the “Delete” button and say goodbye to your virtual page.

Why is it easy to register on a social network, but difficult to delete an account?

By the way, deleting your account, for example, is not so easy. Instead of the planned few minutes (about the time it takes to register a new account), the process of deleting an account may take much longer.

Facebook developers have made the process of deleting a page more difficult for a reason. Apparently, to give a chance to a user already set to delete it to change his mind and still not deactivate his account.

Good reasons for deleting a social network account

What pushes people to break their once strong ties with social networks? Paradoxically, it is devotion to social networks, which often borders on addiction, that becomes one of the main reasons for abandoning one’s favorite page.

It has long been no secret that law enforcement agencies use social networks to search for (or prove the guilt of) suspects of various violations of the law.

Those who have already encountered representatives of Themis who, using information posted on social networks, proved or tried to prove the involvement of the owner of a social network account in a particular crime, go “offline” to avoid similar problems in the future.

From time to time, employers also monitor the pages of their subordinates on social Internet platforms. There are often cases when a photo posted by the account owner on his page became a reason for dismissal from his job. Simply because management considered the photo too revealing.

How to avoid having to delete your social network account?

Having decided to say goodbye to his active “online life”, the ex-owner of the social network. Pages as a reward receives a lot of free time, which can be spent not only on communicating with real friends.

And for users who are not going to stop active on social Internet platforms in the near future, good advice: be less frank online.

Because there is an opinion that information that once gets onto the Internet remains there forever.

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Social networks have become a part of our lives and require us to take them more and more seriously. Some people are fired from their jobs because of a Facebook post, while others are rejected from a promising position because of a cheeky tweet. You can actually sit down for a thoughtless phrase carelessly published on a social network.

However, we are adults. We can and must be responsible for our actions. What about children? Is it worth involving them in the social web before they themselves can decide whether to belong in this digital world or not?

We invite you to think about the reasoning of Kim Shendrow, a person who has personally encountered the consequences of a careless attitude towards social networks.

Some will say that I am a bad mother. Every day I talk about the lives and affairs of my children to hundreds of strangers. I have accumulated 1,549 people on my “friends” list, most of whom I have never spoken to or even seen. These so-called “friends” could tell you what my kids eat, how they are doing at school, what they love and hate.

Before my kids were old enough to articulate their resentment of my past actions, documenting life's moments on Facebook seemed like a good thing. Now that the children are getting older, their anger and resentment are growing stronger. This just creeps me out. Everything is going to the point that sooner or later I will have to delete my account.

Every time I post another photo of my kids jumping in the pool or sleeping curled up on the couch, I'm violating their privacy, and Facebook (and subsequently the entire Internet) won't forget. Will never forget.

However, there are more general reasons why you should delete your accounts on social networks. Consider this list:

1. Facebook makes you think your life sucks.

People only post positive moments in their lives on social media. Failures and disappointments remain behind the scenes. As a result, looking through your friends' feeds, you may get the impression that their lives consist entirely of success, joy and accomplishment, while yours is not. This is a dangerous illusion.

2. Mom won't let me talk to strangers.

But the Facebook friend search algorithm thinks the opposite. He wants strangers to become your friends. The more there are, the better. Every day the social network tries to feed me people who are “friends of my friends.” This flow is diluted by people from my past - those, many of whom I would like to forget. It also contains my cousin, who passed away 2 years ago.

3. Your boss reads you

These are the times when a Facebook post can get you out of your current job and away from many promising jobs in the future. In Foxboro, USA, a man was fired for publishing a photo with a swastika drawn on the body of a drunken friend. There, teachers are fired for photos in which they drink alcohol. One senior female teacher was fired because she refused to unfriend current students. Even if you keep your posts away from specific individuals, your enemy may whisper about your posts and photos to your boss.

4. Your Facebook “friends” don’t care about your little joys and events.

Seriously, it’s unlikely that there will be many people on your list of friends who were really interested in learning that your kitten is finally litter box trained. You need to be able to filter things based on whether there are reasons to be published. Dads, moms, stop posting photos and events with your children when “awkward” moments occur. In the future, this could be used to ridicule and mock your children.

5. You will stop slacking off at work.

Well, or at least you will spend a little less time on idleness. It's no secret that Facebook is a great time waster. In the US, such gatherings on social networks during working hours cost employers $28 billion in losses annually.

6. Consequences of your revelations

There are times when you want to admit to some mistake or failure. And you write about it on Facebook. And friends, acquaintances, neighbors, colleagues read this. And they remember this when they meet in person. And you will see it in their eyes, and maybe you will hear it behind your back. What makes people deliberately belittle their personality in the eyes of others?

Everything that is written here within Facebook is applicable to any other social service. With a sufficient level of insanity, the social network may well ruin your life. What do you think makes people behave this way in the digital environment? What reasons made you abandon social networks or reconsider the format of interaction with them?

Social networks have become an integral part of our lives. Initially, they were conceived only as a means of communication for those people who were divorced by fate, but over time they acquired many additional services, because of which direct communication gradually faded into the background. Now it has become fashionable not, but, on the contrary, to remove them. You might also want to support this peaceful protest.

1. Social media takes up too much time. By checking messages for half an hour and sending gifts in one of the many games, you may become interested in a picture or link in the feed, get involved in an empty argument, ruin your mood, spend several hours on this and not have time to do really important things. This only means that developers don’t get their salaries in vain by coming up with new ways to stir up interest in their resource.

2. To learn something truly new and useful from a social network, you will have to sift through mountains of funny pictures, aphorisms, advertising and jokes. But even if you come across something worthwhile, there is no guarantee that the author of an interesting article really understands the issue and is not confidently speaking complete nonsense. There is no need to talk about general illiteracy in networks.

3. There is an unspoken rule on social networks that as long as you like and write comments to other users, you will receive them in response, but if you stop doing this for at least a week, your popularity will drop sharply. By the way, this is a good way to find out who really cares about communicating with you.

4. By and large, your virtual friends don’t care where you were today or what you ate, but your boss may wonder what his employee did when he took time off due to illness.

5. Since we are talking about work, social networks are the best way to ruin your reputation in the workplace. Office employees are usually forgiven for taking frivolous photographs in a frank or not too sober manner, but a teacher or representative of another serious profession can be fired for the same thing. Moreover, the employer will definitely check the potential employee through social networks and may refuse him a good position just because he is too socially active and will probably do extraneous things in the workplace.

6. The habit of geotagging (geographic coordinates of your current location) may one day jeopardize your safety. As already mentioned in point 4, your virtual friends don’t care where you go or what you do, but only if there isn’t some suspicious person among them who will start following you on your heels and sending messages about how good you are today looked in this white dress. It's fine if it's just a secret admirer, but what if you're dealing with a mentally ill person?

7. Social networks devalue the concept of “friendship”, because in them not only those you personally know are considered friends, but also completely random people from your past, or strangers with whom you have the same application installed. At the same time, you often have nothing to talk about with your real-life friends when you meet, because you already know about all the purchases and events in their lives from the Internet.

8. On a social network, you can become an unwitting participant in someone else's social experiment. For example, there are projects dedicated to the so-called virtual pickup. Participants professionally deceive girls into intimate photos, and then post all correspondence, personal data and photographs for everyone to see. Other experimenters created a program that could simulate communication with a real person, and sent it to meet girls and collect their phone numbers. And you’ve probably already come across the provocations of so-called trolls more than once, who lift their own mood by ruining it for others.

9. Through social networks you get a distorted picture of the world, because most news comes to you through the subjective statements of users who cannot always be called smart people. But at the same time, many avid users of social networks are confident that this is the way to get real news, and not the “filtered” ones that I publish on news sites.

10. Looking through other people's photos, sooner or later you will feel dissatisfied with your life. It will start to seem to you that everyone regularly holidays abroad, buys the most expensive designer clothes and marries the best men and women, while you are single and not very wealthy. Believe me, things are no better for other people, they just never write about a marriage hanging on by a thread, or loans that they had to take out to pay for their next purchase. Remember that many of your virtual friends use other people's photos or show off other people's things.

11. Sooner or later, you will also want to publish photos and receive a lot of positive ratings, but it turns out that everything is not so simple. You will probably be upset that no one liked the photos of the dish you spent all day on or your new boyfriend. Moreover, you may not like them either. Have you ever attended an event only because you haven’t updated your page for a long time and needed fresh photos?

12. Having a frequently updated social network account makes you less mysterious to others. Believe me, if your potential partner cannot find out everything about you in five minutes, you will become even more attractive and interesting to him. But the fact that after the first date you publish photos of you together in the public domain can put an end to the budding relationship.

13. You won't be able to enjoy a beautiful moment, a date, or a great meal while you're busy taking pictures of everything around you and counting the likes you get.

14. Professional communication on social networks requires financial investments. Here you can get VIP profile status, paid birthday gifts for friends, investments in numerous games, and payment for mobile Internet if you always want to keep abreast of the latest news. And you probably want a more expensive phone so that the photos turn out as good as possible.

15. Your children learn from your example. Think about it, would you like to see a candid photo of your underage daughter with dozens of lewd comments from strangers on a social network?