Struggling with social media/strava addiction for runners?

1st World Problems ohhhhhhhhh I struggle with social ohhhhhhhh I struggle with media

I deactivated Insta, FB, and Snapchat on 1/1/23. I never post about running, just use socially. Too much FOMO and loss of self worth from comparison though.

Was going to reactivate July 1st to see if it feels better. But so far looking like never going back, the freedom from caring about random acquaintances’ BS is wonderful. Texting, phone calls, and in person catching up is much better.

Speaking of Strava, every so often my everyday, not special, not races, but everyday basic runs get kudos from some random people in other countries. These are people I don't know, don't follow, don't follow me, with no mutuals. How does this happen? I'm public, but how are they even finding my runs?

Are you in any groups?

An online platform that provides services to improve social media presence is called an SMM panel. For social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others, users can buy likes, followers, comments, and other engagement metrics.

i have an addiction to letsrun

I’m addicted to welfare

Why do you care? If you got more likes or more kudos, how would your life be better?

I think you’ve done something good in questioning this, trying to wean yourself from it, and considering using Strava as a tracker. If you are in groups, I would suggest that you look more to what you connect to in groups rather than what you get in terms of likes/kudos.

I think you’re doing something less useful in wondering about the algorithm or thinking that you need to bump up your presence with some kind of professional consultant. If your livelihood depended on social media, I’d get it, but otherwise, it’s just noise. You don’t need that.

Good luck with the soul cleansing.

Just saw that this is so old. Clearly I’m not up on my interwebs, but I don’t mind.

Er, delete the app you absolute balloon.

You really post this and expect serious responses?

I've progressively deleted all my social network accounts and have remained without them since 1y and a half (well I still have Linkedin but I don't use it as a real social network, just for job seeking and stuff; plus I can't care about that social network, it's too much of a joke).

I'm not going back. I don't deny there are good things to it, but I think it's a net negative (for me personally, I'm almost sure, for society, i do think). Now I reflect on some of the stuff that social networks would do to my psychology and honestly, it's a crazy thing for me to remember I was trapped in that stuff

I dumped FB 4-5 years ago. It was one of the better decisions of my life. The only social media I am on is Letsrun and that is only bearable with a throwaway account like this one.

I was addicted to strava and to running for a couple of years, especially during lockdown. I was running so much that I got injured but I continued to run through the injuries. That eventually ended with me not running for 6 months. It was a bad time as I had centred my life around running but I also had chronic injuries which weren't getting better and the health service were unhelpful to say the least. Bad times. I learnt to heal myself. Ironically since I started running again I have been running literally half the amount I was doing and have equalled my 5k pb. I haven't been on strava since. Facebook etc I never got into as I have nothing to put on there.

I struggle with a running addiction.