Do you regret deleting FB or IG or any social media?

Not at all.

In fact, I am now a fully functioning human being and not a human doing.

would your real friends not phone you for 3-4 years. They are not your friends.

Facebook's idea of friends is not the same as having real human friends.

I didn't miss a single thing about leaving Facebook, google, Amazon and all social media including anything that collects unnecessary personal data

I have real friends now.

I am aware of the inner sense of excitement I feel when I see one of my friends calling me to have a conversation on my phone.

In comparison to reading a Facebook message about what food they just ate or when they last wiped their arse.

utilise some other means of contact

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Shortly after FB was created my friends convinced me to try it out. Right away I was being spammed with these mini games that individually had sub-sets of questions nearly identical to psych-eval tests given in the military for specific access requirements. All the mini games put together were one full test. I warned my friends and also showed them how to delete their account. I was laughed at. I deleted my account and never regretted that decision. Even with anonymous access I could see how some of my friends were destroying their relationships using FB. FB exposed a side of people I did not need to see.

I never could figure out how to get people to see the manipulation machines they were sucked into. It felt like I was in an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation. [1] With time the world started to see social media platforms for what the are but many continue to use it just accepting the risk/rewards. Not my cup of tea. HN is about as social-media as I get and even then I try to limit my time.

TL;DR: No regrets deleting FB. Never tried Twitter, Reddit or any of the other platforms.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is12anYx2Qs [video]

I think he means govt in general, not J and K state.

Also apropos of your question in another thread about the Amish, those stories you are talking about are about a specific Mennonite group in Canada. Amish are different from Mennonites (more conservative)