Louise Minchin is quitting social media after being trolled online.
The BBC Breakfast presenter has decided to close her Facebook and Twitter accounts as she finds it hard to forget negative comments she reads about herself, admitting it has been a "long time coming" getting rid of her account on the platforms.
She shared: "I am not alone, there are plenty of others. You might think I am oversensitive (I probably am), and need to grow a thicker skin (I probably do), but the truth is I can read a hundred nice comments about me but it will be the nasty one I will remember, try as I might to shrug it off. Recently the level of acrimony on social media reached unnerving levels, with people constantly shouting at each other, whipping up outrage and throwing around wild assumptions. I realised, I had had enough of reading it and being drawn into the cycle of negativity."
And the 51-year-old journalist and television presenter says cutting it off has given her more time to do other things she wouldn’t have before such as read books or catch up on television and she is glad she is out of the "rabbit hole of darkness".
Writing for Cheshire Life magazine, she added: "The upsides have been surprising. I have time to do other things I have been wanting to do for ages.
"Reading books, watching box-sets and actually using my mobile to speak to my friends and family – it’s much better than falling into a rabbit hole of darkness."
Louise Minchin quits social media
