According to a 2021 study, people around the world spend almost 3.5 hours on average on social media daily. The recent Netflix documentary “Social Dilemma,” monopoly power hearings against Silicon Valley’s tech giants, such as Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple, and an increasing number of data leaks every year raise concerns about the flip side of technology – data security, privacy, addiction and toxicity.
The Vivid Minds explored what drives people to deactivate their social media profiles and what it’s like to live ‘disconnected’.