Mary McNamara: The social anxiety of social media has celebrities 'quiet quitting.' Here's why

Maybe we should start calling it social-anxiety media.

Over the last few weeks, Tom Holland left social media in an effort to preserve his "mental health"; Jonah Hill announced that, in an effort to cope with his anxiety, he will no longer do public-facing events, including social media; and Florence Pugh, who had no problem taking down those who found her nipple-revealing Valentino objectionable, revealed that she and Zach Braff have been broken up for a while now but she didn't want to make that public because she couldn't bear the gleeful responses … on social media.

In many ways, the new trend of "" began on social media. People famous and non- delete their apps every day, with or without grand announcements, and for all sorts of