That's pretty sad. I'm sorry it affects you this way. I dont know if it is any consolation, but I can say that not having a phone, as well as not having social networks (in my case I'm on HN) helped immensely by weeding these people out of my life.

I'd like to reference a past comment I made on this issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28314603

Is it social media as a technology that you feel is sad/negative? What is the negative or damage that you feel is caused to people who participate?

Not social media, I've been around for the last 20 years on all kinds of scenes. I created my Facebook account on 2006 and closed it in 2014.

I used to enjoy web forums a lot, back in the PHP dominated era (MyBB, PHPBB, SMF, vBulletin, Invision, etc). I was an active part of that culture... Had Fotolog, MySpace, DeviantArt, and the like for ages... Grew up as social media evolved and enjoyed Facebook as much as the next guy at a time... I even evangelized for it when other social networks were leading... matter of fact, I reported a XSS vulnerability to them back in 2006, never got thanked for it...

But it changed... It became dark, negative... I felt worse after logging in, and became antagonized by it... So I figured it was me, and maybe I was just too old for it, just like that old pub I used to go, 'its all kids these days'... So I quit... And now more people are realizing the same... Maybe its an age thing... A lot of people go with 'but that's the way I reach my loved ones', bullshit... I live half way across the world and got no problem reaching my fam through Telegram or whatever...

I grew out of Facebook, I guess...

You are not alone, I followed almost this same path to leaving around the same time. Have a good weekend!