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L'Oreal Thompson Payton

Social media exodus: the benefits of quitting, as users flee to save their sanity

Young woman using the mobile phone while drinking coffee or tea at home (Credit: Getty Images)

With a new social media app dropping seemingly almost every other day, there are some people who are deciding to leave these platforms behind altogether. And doing so wouldn’t be such a bad idea.

Last weekend, Twitter owner and former CEO Elon Musk shared that the app would be placing temporary limits on the number of apps users could read in one day due to “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation.” Unverified users were initially limited to reading 600 tweets per day while verified users, those who pay Twitter a monthly fee of $8, could view up to 6,000 tweets per day. 

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