“It made me feel good…” For the campaign, they leaked social networks

• The presidential campaign is soon coming to an end with the second round which will oppose Emmanuel Macron to Marine Le Pen on Sunday and, on social networks, a certain fatigue is felt.

• Internet users have even decided to uninstall Twitter or Facebook to take a break.

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  , they tell.

"Too much anxiety", "A hate that makes you sick", "Twitter is too much right now".

Many Internet users can no longer bear to be permanently connected to social networks, a phenomenon exacerbated by the weight that the presidential campaign has taken on online.

“It only talks about politics”, complained for example a Twitter user on April 11, even considering leaving the social network the day after the first round.

But do Internet users really decide to take the plunge to flee the supporters of Emmanuel Macron or the arguments relayed by the supporters of Marine Le Pen?

you to understand the motivations of those who undertook a digital truce during the presidential campaign.

"I feel better about it"

As early as February, Jean-Marc decided to "terminate his accounts".

“Dodgy jokes, fake news and cheap political propaganda horrified me.

"I'm better off!"

“, he confides.

A form of mea culpa for Jean-Marc, who admits having, in previous elections, “made the mistake of providing answers to the various discussions” on subjects with which he disagreed.

"I deleted my Facebook account after the 2017 elections, to focus on Instagram, which I found more fun", explains Julie to

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"Five years later, I wonder if I'm not going to delete my Instagram account for the same reason", continues our reader, who points to "the exhaustion of seeing everyone's opinions, all the time, or the injunctions of vote for so and so.

“If her decision to leave social networks is not always understood by those close to her, Julie is now certain of her choice: “I don’t even take advantage of my daily breaks anymore”.

Avoid highlighting certain candidates

Some Internet users have decided to disconnect for much more political reasons.

"At the beginning of January, I already stopped going to networks such as Twitter and Facebook," David said.

I did not want to advertise candidates who did not suit me by criticizing them.

On the Web, talking about it was bringing them into the light.

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David decided to “cut off from Facebook and Twitter”.

“It did me good,” he says too.

But continue to follow the campaign without social networks?

"I mostly watched Jean-Luc Mélenchon's meetings on YouTube," admits our reader.

If he assures that he did not miss the networks during these three months - "quite the contrary" -, David finally made a difference to "return to activism".

“The current power does not suit me, nothing on ecology, only on the economy”, underlines David to justify his return to social networks as the second round of Sunday approaches.

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