5 reasons of not using social media 1 1.Protection of Privacy If I do not use social media, people will never know how old I am unless I tell them. Wherever my daily routine happened will be exposed once I share a selfie, share a location or share a status. People will know where I live, where I eat lunches and how I go to school. It is easier to let people find me by reorganizing a identifier in the picture which I send, even though we meet each other in cyberspace. Sometimes being away from social media means being away from ill-disposed lurkers. Also, people will know everything that I post on my personal file before they talk to me. In other words, they will have a formed image of mine in their mind before they know me. I prefer a better start of one friendship that happened in real world, rather than social media. 2.More spare time If I do not use social media, I can save more time for personal use. I realize I am wasting time when I am learning what Friend A post and what Friend B eat for dinner every day. I will get almost a whole day per week if I can save one hour which is spent on social media every day. Searching on social media and new updates cannot help me improve myself. I can use the saved one day to read a book, have a short trip with friends, and learn how to bake a birthday cake. 3.Self-esteem If I do not use social media, I would not be labeled as “popular” or “unpopular” by how many “likes” I get. I will think one person “he/she must be pretty good at socializing” when I see this person have a large amount of friends in his/her social media circle. Similarly, I will feel upset if I do not get many “likes” and comments from my friends. I will keep refreshing the page until I receive a satisfied amount of responses. It will make my heart break and I will lost a lot of time on waiting for response at same time.