One thing my friends always give me grief for is how quick I am to block people on social media. Many people keep people they don't even like on their friend list for one reason or another, but not me. If I don't like you, I don't want to see your posts, I don't want to know what you're up to. I want to protect my own peace.
Unfortunately, social media is something that causes so many issues in life. From marriages to friendships to jobs, it can cause issues if you're not careful. For me, I've always had issues with protecting my inner peace. I've taken a huge step back from social media, I rarely scroll my newsfeed, but I've found a few other ways to help protect myself.
Here are my 3 top reasons why I delete and/or block toxic people on social media so quickly and why you should consider weeding out the toxicity on your own list:
It takes away the temptation of checking in on them: We are all guilty of checking someone's profile we don't like at one time or another. I can say that I've never checked someone's profile and felt good afterward. Sometimes curiosity killed the cat and we see something that upsets us, something we wish we hadn't seen. So why risk upsetting yourself? Remove the ability to see their profile.
Prevents you from seeing comments and such on mutual friends' posts: I'm not the type of person that says "Pick sides!" or "You can't be friends with them and friends with me!" However, there are a few cases where someone deeply hurt me and I don't even want to see their name pop up on my timeline. Blocking them prevents me from seeing that they've commented or liked a post, letting me enjoy posts a little more.
Prevents them from checking my stuff (almost): Sometimes I don't want people seeing my posts, I want to protect my space by keeping toxicity out. I say almost because we all know that psycho with the backup Facebook who uses it just to check up on you. (Or they obsessively stalk your blog ;) ) But in this case, they usually won't leave downer comments on your posts or start fights, because no one wants to own up to being that person. It protects your space to a degree and keeps your timeline a happy place.
So I challenge you to take a second and think, do you have someone whose posts make you feel ick? Do you have toxic people on your timeline that you don't even like? Why keep them?
Can't delete them for one reason or another? Then unfollow them!
We need to do better at protecting our peace and stop with the fake relationships, it's not worth it. You are worth more than that!
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