Quitting social media also means distancing from people who are obsessed with it
I had a falling out with a friend, which happens from time to time, but I realized I haven't been outraged in a while.
Here is how it'd go:
He would be read something off twitter, then get outraged (the world is big something is always happening).
Then he'd bring it up in a conversation. I'd look it up and be appalled.
Problem is we wouldn't do anything, we would just talk for hours about it and then in few days move on to another thing completely forgetting about it.
Sorry you lost your friend. Although this reminds me of a "Pearls Before Swine" cartoon. The malicious rat sees the cartoonist (who's drawn himself into the strip), and teases the cartoonist by asking how he'd liked the scathingly negative attack that the rat had made on him on Facebook the night before.
And the cartoonist replies, "Didn't see it. I stopped using social media years ago. I've never been happier."
In the last panel of the strip, the stunned rat says: "That's doesn't seem fair."