As a 21 year old I hate cell phones and social media. When you go hang out with people everyone is just on their phones. It's even worse with teenagers that I have hung out with.
Ironically, my best friends only respond to my texts 50% of the time. And when I was on Facebook, we never ever talked or commented on each others shit. They are just never on their phones. Too busy living life, for real.
I have been to parties that were lame but the pictures the next day make it seem like it was the best party of all time. I've been in shitty relationships that the pictures and captions underneath make it look perfect.
When you see this every day, everyone having a perfect life, it can make you start to feel jealous. On some level you start to think that everyone is wildly happy and successful and that your life is bleak and uninteresting. It's not healthy.
I've had a girl almost break up with me because I didn't post anything about us online.
2.5 years ago, I got rid of my Facebook account, and then made another and added 5 friends: my dad, mom, brother, sister, and wife. I look at their pictures once every few months. My Mother-In-Law is STILL upset that I'm not her friend on Facebook. She literally made a frustrated comment about it to my wife this weekend while they were talking.
"But we're his family too!", she said. Give me a break.