Hello, fellow sufferers! About a month ago I had had enough of Facebook and Instagram's bad business practices and deactivated my accounts. I can still use Messenger and use it to communicate with a couple of friends and family, but my main girl group uses Instagram to group chat. I haven't seen them in-person in over a year because of Covid and now that I don't have social media I can't see what they're up to or make plans with them because none of them answer texts in a timely fashion. I also don't have an iPhone like they do to group text. 

Before I deactivated on Insta we were planning a weekend trip out of town that I was really looking forward to but I just found out that they cancelled it. This whole experience of not having social media has been really isolating and I don't know how to interact with my friends without it. I keep thinking that they're probably hanging out together without me and due to some childhood incidents where I was purposely excluded from things, that's a really sore spot for me.

I don't really know where to go from here. I really don't want to re-activate my accounts to give the appearance of being social, but I also don't want to be isolated anymore from my friends..