Same here, I feel like I dodged the social media bullet. It’s hard for me to imagine someone looking back from the year 2050 and thinking that the rise of the social media era was this great thing for culture and society.
Freegards
I think I got turned off on the stuff after having AOL when it first started. That was back in the dial-up days. I co-hosted two chatrooms then: Civil War and Genealogy at night. On a regular basis, some moron would come into the chatrooms, and try to disrupt them. At least we could manually block them. I hosted for a couple of years, but got burned out, and left AOL. When I first joined FR, a group of us used to meet in an IRC chat room in the evenings. A lot of us later met in Washington for FR get-togethers, and had a great time. Very good memories.