We Have Left Social Media

You will not find World Travel Family, me, Alyson, or my husband on social media today. We quit the socials in 2025, months ago. Please feel free to unsubscribe from all of our social media profiles. And if you’re thinking of quitting them yourself, – do it. Go on. If I can, you can. It’s something you can do to reclaim your humanity and break ties with the machine. More than one friend has said that they’re only still on Facebook because of me. I live a long way away. So we quit en masse and now make calls. It’s much nicer.

Stick around for emails, please. We humans need to stick together more than ever. Why did we do it? How did it affect our traffic and income as travel bloggers?

Leaving Social Media is Becoming Popular

I’ve deleted all of my Facebook groups, pages and personal profile. It feels great! Insta is gone. I was briefly on Substack, where people seemingly compete to be the most polite. And then one person wasn’t. And that’s when I left. It’s OK, I forgive her and wish her well. She was using hate and drama to get clicks, for what purpose? Self publicity? I have no clue, but I’m done with it.

I do not want to feed the machine, and I do not consent to all of the darkness that’s around humanity. I haven’t watched the news or TV in years, almost 20 years. I don’t want to be told that I should live in fear or suffering. I have never wanted to be an influencer. It’s so fake. I am not a fake, I am authentically me, warts ‘n all.

Social Media has been important for travel bloggers and all bloggers for a very long time, or so we were told. It was a great way to collect followers, grow traffic and get “brand deals”. I’ve never wanted to do brand deals. I don’t want to do any of it any more, so I quit.

My private group “Living Differently” has gone, as have all my FB business pages. The page for this site had over 10K followers, so did my Insta, but honestly, that means nothing.

Facebook has barely driven traffic for years, mostly because I can’t be bothered and don’t want to spend hours creating content. Also, because it became a toxic environment filled with hate bots and people who don’t yet live in unconditional love.

Chef, my husband, has deleted Facebook. The kids never got sucked into that world, thankfully. Most kids don’t use Facebook.

I’ve deleted all of our content on YouTube and multiple Facebook groups and pages. I haven’t opened Twitter in years. The only one that remains is Pinterest. Pinterest seems fairly innocuous, and I like making pretty pictures, sometimes.

I have never been on TikTok.

When I first started blogging, Facebook was the only platform that existed; one by one, the many social media platforms became essential for my industry. Allegedly.

We became slaves to them, generating more and more complex content to win the algorithm wars.

And then they were all owned by the same people. People with too much money.

I never fully committed. I was a token player, my superpower was always this website.

Being on them is an important part of SEO, so we’re told. Well, if that’s the case, I’m not playing that game any more. Email only.

I still consume YouTube content and occasionally like or comment to help the creators gain reach. The creators I watch are human, not AI, and they have important information to share. Uplifting or helpful information. I try to stay away from the darkness while remaining informed and unaffected by things going on.

Did Quitting Social Media Affect Our Income or Traffic?

No, it has had no effect. March just gone (2026) was a record month, but then governments created a war, and all travel will likely grind to a halt. I don’t care. I’ve never cared much about money, just about being with my family and keeping them well, safe, and happy. My need for material “stuff” is very low.

My lack of need for income may come across as privileged, but it’s really not. I just have faith that everything will be fine. The things I do at home are of far more value to my family than the monetary value of a salary.

I grow food, cook, clean, renovate and nurture. I try to educate, too.

Financial collapse is coming. Dissolution of society as we know it is coming. I don’t know what the transition will look like, but the solution to turbulence is love. There’s a love-shaped void on social media.

I did have a mission to show people, because some didn’t know, that the world is a wonderful place, filled with kind, good people. I wanted to show people that stepping out of the system was a positive thing to do. And that it was possible.

I don’t have many self-limiting beliefs, I never have had them in terms of taking on big unconventional things. It started with homebirth, then homeschool, then a step out of “normal” society. I didn’t realise that I was ahead of the pack when I chose those things. I didn’t think I was anything special, but I did know that I loved peoples, places, faiths and cultures, and I wanted readers not to see any place or people as lesser or to be feared.

We’re going back to how we were meant to be as we become more and more off-grid. I like it. It gives me more time to enjoy my life, and I do, very much.

The email newsletters still go out every week. A few people read, but nobody comments most weeks. I’ve lost that connection with the readers that I used to have. It was valuable to me, I miss it. But too many people have gone from trusting other humans, to putting their faith in AI. It’s very dark. I hope they wake up.

So stay on the email list, there will be more travel content because I still love learning about, and sharing places, with our readers. And I still love doing things differently.

You can always email me.

Take care out there.

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