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None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.

I've never been the type to be on social media all the time.

Social media is the devil. Absolute devil. Oh, my God. It's the worst thing ever.

There have been moments where I've had to question the way I've used social media and change it. Not because anything was wrong or right but because my needs had changed, and my perspective had changed.

I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.

I by no means quit social media.

I deleted my Facebook account when I was 19 because it didn't bring out good qualities in me. I figured, 'Well my mom's got a Facebook. If people want to find me, they can go through her.'

I'm hopelessly addicted to Instagram.

I think you've got to be careful with social media. You can get addicted to the buzz of people liking and commenting. It's exhausting.

I do have Instagram, but I try to avoid going on it too much. Some people are very good at how they use it, and they enjoy that interaction, but I want to be very careful.

At a certain point, you have to stop reading social.

I'm very lucky. I'm not too exposed to social media and is going quite well for me. I like to have my privacy.

You have to be careful that you're not too involved in so much social media that you miss out on real life.

For me, even with my Twitter and Facebook, I'm not on it all the time. I don't Twitter every day.

But it wasn't until I deleted Twitter that everything changed for me and I slowly started to feel normal again.

I'm not a big social media guy, I have no Twitter accounts, I don't have Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, I don't do any of that stuff.

I have often said social media is a race to the bottom.

When I was young, I was crazy in the head on social media.

I think people get stuck in a cycle with social media sometimes and don't know how to make adjustments that are personal.

First of all I'm not a fan of Twitter. Nothing against their program or what they have, but as an athlete I think you need to get off of Twitter.

I think when people spend all their time together is when trouble starts brewing.

While I am very grateful for the role social media plays in my ability to interact so personally with my fans, I also see time and time again how it negatively affects social relationships of the younger generation.

I don't even read social media.

Now that I have joined Instagram, I think I'm on it less than before. Earlier, I used to be there all the time. I'm enjoying it because it's where you have complete control on what you're putting out, as you want it. I don't feel there's a compulsion to be active.

I do love Instagram, but even if I spend 15 minutes looking at stuff, I feel guilty.