I deactivated all my personal social media accounts a week ago, and the sudden quiet is actually kind of unnerving

I got so sick of the constant loop of doomscrolling, targeted ads, and looking at the curated highlight reels of people I went to high school with. At first, hitting deactivate felt amazing. But now, whenever I have a spare two minutes of downtime, my thumb automatically twitches to open an app that isn't there anymore. It’s making me realize just how deeply addicted my brain was to that constant stream of micro-validation and noise, and it's honestly a bit terrifying