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The other night I was thinking about the way things were before the internet and social media. I've seen a lot of people lately talking about leaving Facebook for other platforms, and I was thinking about what the world would be like if none of those things existed anymore.  One thing I know for sure is that if there were no social media anymore, people would have a lot more time to do a lot more things! Don't get me wrong, I'm on Facebook and Instagram, and I probably won't be giving them up completely anytime soon. But I find that I'm able to get a lot more things done when I put down the phone and close the laptop and actually do something worthwhile. The thing I like most about social media is being able to keep in touch with far away family and friends. (And these days when we all mostly stay home, even not so far away family and friends.) But what did we do before social media existed? We called people on the phone and we wrote letters and sent them in the mai