Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she left Facebook because 'social media poses a public health risk to everybody' (FB)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used Facebook to campaign for office, and it was a major success.
"I personally gave up Facebook," she said in a recent interview with Yahoo News' Skullduggery podcast .
That's particularly notable because
Ocasio-Cortez partially built her successful campaign for the House of
Representatives using Facebook.
"I started my campaign on Facebook, and Facebook was my primary digital organizing tool for a very long time," she said.
Her office still operates official pages on
Facebook, but the congresswoman says she is personally off of the
world's most popular social media platform.
But why?
"I actually think that social media poses a
public health risk to everybody," she said. "Increased isolation,
depression, anxiety, addiction, escapism I think that it poses these
issues to everyone."
Ocasio-Cortez is still an active Instagram
user, and said she limits her Twitter use to weekends. "I've started to
impose little rules on myself," she said. "You will see me hop on
Twitter on the weekends, but for the most part ... I take the weekends
off."
That rule appears to be one she doesn't always stick to as of this writing she had tweeted seven times on Wednesday.
But as she said during the interview, "It takes a lot to try to unwind those habits."
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