even as i quit everything personal, it's still functionally the mode through which many of us now work. slack is social media, whether or not they or our employers would cop to that.
maybe i'm extra pessimistic, but it increasingly feels like the internet is also becoming a mandatory component of having a social life (i'm in my early 20s, grew up on this stuff, etc).
just can't shake the feeling that to recede from it could be futile, if only because it's becoming equivalent to receding from society itself. and the idea of not even having the option to is mildly uncomfortable.
Everyone still has a phone number, right? Voice calls, SMS, just remind people you exist, have little chats here and there. Get together in person, plan it old school. People might even like it.
That is far fetched, but I don't know where do you work. I've got 2 slacks going at any point of time - work one is pretty tame and business only (our work culture is dry). The other one is for a developer community and I wouldn't call it "social media", but a community focused on certain topic.
I am more in contact with the people I care about now. Voice calls and texts are so much more direct and personal; you become involved in people's lives, rather than perfecting the art of exchanging the role of being the bystander.
What are you so scared you're going to miss out on?