Live in the Moment: Delete Social Media | Ryan Thomas | TEDxAshburnSalon

the day i quit social media is the day i live AGAIN

Just be honest with yourself

the lie is that you think you are getting some benefit from it, and when you get the courage to delete it all you realize that you actually got nothing at all from it.

I thought i can balance it out. Quitting is the answer. Thanks!

I quit Facebook and Instagram about 6 years ago. I love that my life and that of my family is private.

This video is so perfect and spot on for what I need right now! I had no idea that I was in denial about fitting in and the emotional expense is so high. Thank you.

I think we can all agree that social media has weakened us individually and collectively as a society. We should all be embarrassed.

Totally agree! Ugh i hate socials

I disconnected yesterday. I have mental health issues and this clip helped. Part of me becoming a better father, husband and worker.

5 years ago huhhhhh

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social media for surely affected the attention span; I didn't even heard what was said at the end and the claps wake me up.

By ceasing to use social media (Tictok, Instagram, etc.), you will experience
1. Less stress
2. less sense of comparison
3. more mental calm
4. more efficient and productive days
5. more truthfulness
6. more sense of presence
the list goes on and on!

"If you can't downgrade your lifestyle for 1 year,
in order to live the lifestyle you want,
you care too much about what other people think."
-Jim Carrey

That is absolutely true.
Deleting social media will be an avenue towards individual thought and freedom.
You will be free from distraction and then learn how to focus and concentrate and then you willbe come excellent

oh this is amazing , yet i still got this information by the internet on YT. maybe in the future i can develop myself a way to get some information by meditation or maybe telepathic methods just like Prof.Charles Xavier does with his "cerebro" in The X men (>‿◠)✌

SOCIAL is good, MEDIA is bad...
Social media is neutral, its either good or bad. Its not what social media can do to us but its what we do with social media...

The people think Social media is bad and they give example of people using them.

I think We do not notice or recognize real issue here. They think that real problem is social media. I do not think so. Real problem is people, majority of people who do what they are told and watch they are asked to watch. Majority was always been sheep. Just fit in and do not try to be criticized. Do not push behind or back. Just be like every one else around you.
If you read scientists, philosophers I mean all rational people; you will notice there always been problems with few people and society which is majority of people. Read plato, voltaire, J.J. Rousseau, Kant and so forth. I just want to shed light on society which alwasy continuing to be same. If the problem would be Social Sedia, We cold tell the ohh yeahh People used to live in heaven back then where there is no social media.
So, If real issue isn't social media, what is it then ? lets figure it out.

If you look at the evolution, you will see that not all animals have high degree of success in nature. Achievements take place in right conditions in right places. Here there are lots of parameters and not all animals have that chance. It applies to people. What can you expect of child whose mom is drug dealer and dad is a thief ? Take a moment and oberve your around. You will immedately see that mejority of people are living pay-chech to pay-check. If you are working hard just to afford basic essentials and do not have enough time to read and discover, How you will have a proper set of mind and consider things the way It should be. Evolution has a lot of thing to do with our civilization. It is my hypothesis why majority of people are sheep and only few people come up with ground shaking ideas and lead our society.

By the way I dont use social media for several years. I would not say I am much more happier person yet I can say that I am much more in peace.
Stay in peace.

Hi i am doing a debate at school about whether social media does more bad then good and this ha shelved so much, i don’t use social media any way as i have never liked it but this has just confirmed that will never use it. If i want to see my friends, i will meet them after school instead. It is easy to solve these problems that social media has created

I also quit all social media....now i live a peaceful life.

One of the besf ted talk 👏🏼❤

It's between doing or viewing. Being an active person or a voyeur. Of course the big guys want you addicted because they're making money. Why give them more? They don't care if people are getting more depressed or even committing suicide. Live your own life, fulfill yourself, and be in control of your destiny. Live in reality, and be your true self instead of comparing, or feeding your fragile ego through social media.

The most unsettling fact in all these... Is the gap between life as portrayed on social media platforms and real life!
The comparisons... Are on another level!
Beauty standards... Exaggerated, fake, unreal and pathetic!

اتوقع ختمت كل المقاطع اللي تتكلم عن ضرر مواقع التواصل والى الآن ماقدرت اتركها

For the personal use the talk is OK. BUT, in real cases scenarios, you want to start and build up a business or spread your company up (e.g. you are a personal trainer, or an actor, or a florist, or a naturopath, a tea master, a painter, a calligrapher, a swimming pool cleaner, a plumber, a film maker, an innovative sort of baker, something else that is not a pre-packaged profession like medical doctor or engineer or lawyer etc.) without using social media.... how to do it? Are there real witnesses of these professional examples?! Without using ads and social media at all.

You are very brave! Congratulations!

Ive deleted and remade my accounts so many times. It all started with msn messenger lol. The deleting urges come from something deeper.

I recently deleted Twitter

He looks like Francis Wilkerson from Malcolm in the middle

Bless this young man. I wish people like him would have been on a platform every day repeating this message from that day to this. It is truly sad to witness how this ‘social connectedness’ has fragmented true human interaction.

Whenever someone says “no specific pop-culture references please, we don’t want to make anybody who doesn’t get it feel left out” they’re talking about this guy

though I cant rid off social media, ur words deeply effective on me

"try going a week without social media and it will change your life" - I'm 44 years without social media and I can attest to the accuracy of that statement.

I deleted social media too. More time to do things with feeling less sadness because I was seeing on social media what others had that I didn't. Invest that time in better things that actually lead to accomplishing your goals.

I stopped FB, Insta, Tik all of it in 2016. Now I share crochet patterns on this channel.

The "Me Society" is the virus of society. Let the roaches know when you are finished...

Me watching vids on social media about quitting social media

Wow that was a incredible insight and display , amaze me how authentic the dude seems while speaking

THANK YOU VERY MUCH MISTER. YOU SAID IT ALL!!!!!! IT IS TIME TO RECLAIM OUR FREEDOM. SOCIAL MEDIA IS A PRISON, THAT IS HOW I LOOK AT IT NOW. EVERYTIME, I HAVE THE URGE TO CHECK S.M., I AUTOMATICALLY WATCH VIDEOS “REASONS TO GET OUT OF SOCIAL MEDIAS:) I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW WE LET SOCIAL MEDIA IMPRISON US THROUGH ADDICTION BUT NOT ANYMORE~~~~

I don’t call them phones anymore. They’re devices with phone as an added feature 😉

Quitting social media is easy. I already did it 7 times

I quit social media after my life became consumed with politics and debates about racism and negativity. Times were definitely better without so much information. We need more interaction with people

I hooked with social media to follow day to day life of my fav celebs of kdramas, movie actors I watched . Seeing my people in social media watching this new drama , series, animes, making me watch more and more. Now I truly feel depressed 😭 and i can't focus on my study. So my watching these videos I am motivating myself after deactivating my social media. I currently watching less of everything not so addictive thing. That are related to nature and reality .

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