It is, once again, time for me to ring the bell and tell you that the end is nigh. As the self-appointed horsewoman of the social media apocalypse, this time I’m telling you that it’s officially time to get out. Delete your accounts, get yourself back into the real world and experience the Outernet again. It’s over, it’s done — social media is officially a desolate wasteland that will only make you less informed and mentally unwell.

I used to think stopping social media use was something that’s mainly beneficial to the individual — you’ll be happier and you’ll eliminate a massive time sink, leaving you with more time to actually connect with the people around you and do something useful with your time. Spending your days getting angry on Twitter or looking at AI-generated slop and interacting with chatbots on Facebook just seems so useless, I don’t know why any one of us would do that for fun. This time, though, I’m convinced that the benefits of us leaving social media are societal.

Meta just released an announcement that put the final nail in the coffin for social media having any sort of informative use. Mark Zuckerberg just announced in a video that Meta will be getting rid of fact-checkers and…

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