r/AskMenAdvice • u/Pure_Study_4964 • 17h ago
2025 New Resolution?
Hello Redditians! My New Year’s resolution is to delete all social media apps from my phone—Facebook, Instagram, Telegram—and only keep YouTube. However, I plan to use YouTube strictly for educational and inspirational content, avoiding anything that promotes negativity or low-value content.
If you’ve done something similar or have recommendations on how to fill the gap left by social media, I’d love to hear your ideas! How do you stay connected, entertained, or informed in healthier ways? Any tips or suggestions?
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Hello Redditians! My New Year’s resolution is to delete all social media apps from my phone—Facebook, Instagram, Telegram—and only keep YouTube. However, I plan to use YouTube strictly for educational and inspirational content, avoiding anything that promotes negativity or low-value content.
If you’ve done something similar or have recommendations on how to fill the gap left by social media, I’d love to hear your ideas! How do you stay connected, entertained, or informed in healthier ways? Any tips or suggestions?
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u/txrunner262 man 17h ago
I have slowly faded away from Instagram to a point of hardly posting anything in 2024 and going more with YouTube as well. For me I started following creators from Instagram that I did enjoy because most of the time they post the same exact things and sometimes more. I feel more connected with them than I would with Instagram.
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u/stella_mourning_star woman 16h ago edited 16h ago
This! I'm leaving IG and FB to focus on things I've been procrastinating on for two years now. Hahaha. Keeping Messenger, as it's my main way of communicating with my family, and LinkedIn to stay entertained with nerdy stuff and keep up with tech updates. Oh and yeah, keeping Strava too for a healthier and stronger me in 2025! Cheers! 🥂🎉✨️
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u/cosmic_fishbear man 16h ago
Negative things happen. Ignoring them isn't "healthy", it's being an ostrich
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u/maybejustadragon man 15h ago
My resolution is to not make resolutions based on obligations to specific resolution dates.
Resolutions that get followed through on are made by a personal need. Not because new years told me I needed one.
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u/Ppl_r_bad man 15h ago
Just on last post telling all to have a great life. That you’re taking your life back cause it is too short to spend your free time on your devices. Then just start closing accounts and be done. I did this back in October. I have Reddit and you tube that’s it. I have more me time now
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u/Double-Top-Secret 17h ago
Sorry to say that I have no useful advice here. I've been off Facebook specifically for over a decade, but recently they've occasionally sucked me in as I've tried to dash past the home screen to get to Marketplace, for which there really is no substitute right now. Never got down with the social media aspect of YouTube (sometimes I can't even find the comment section!), and Twitter and Insta never appealed to me.
Reddit, however, is a powerful addiction. They just suspended all my accounts and here I am trying to rebuild enough online social credit to be able to participate in the useful subs.
So I'll say that it's certainly possible to limit your socials use, but going completely offline is bound to be exceedingly challenging, and may even create its own problems in the modern world. For example, my general lack of an online presence created doubt in the minds of girls I was trying to meet up with. They figured I was either a liar/cheater; a bot or troll account; or 90 years old.
Good luck!