Get out, now.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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I'm not trying to defend what it has become but social media can be good to keep updated or in contact with people. You're not gonna email everyone pictures of your vacation or whatever. Or to keep up with people you don't see nearly as often as you'd like because of, well, life. People do take it way to far and either post way too much info or take everything too serious.
In my opinion, it's a very passive way to keep in contact. It doesn't require remembering people or interacting with them in any way. If you post photos, it shouldn't be expected that people see them. If you post about a party, it's not a replacement for an invite to people.
It's shouting into the wind and then pushing the responsibility of that relationship to be on the person viewing the post to reply to it or like or whatever.
I got off social media for that exact reason, it was very seriously impacting my mental health. Now I may have fewer "friends" but the ones that do are the ones where we are important enough where we actively interact with each other.