Idk if this is just me, but I feel like everytime I open social media, there’s a pregnancy announcement, or someone saying “My birth control failed!!” or something along those lines. Does this happen to anybody else??? I’ve had to delete all social media because it gives me anxiety!! lol

Do you interact with these posts? Because even opening them to “read more” counts as interaction. The algorithm will then show more posts of that nature, you may interact again, algorithm picks it up and show even more. Birth control will only fail people who don’t use it correctly (whether they are aware of it or not) or are born with an incredibly rare genetic mutation which causes birth control not to work.

But I don’t really see those posts no, maybe once or twice a year.

I recommend seeing the documentary "social dilemma". It explains how social media tracks your activity and caters to it. It takes time to clean up your feed, and you may have to take actions such as reporting or hiding content that triggers or upsets you.

also to add its highly unlikely anyone’s birth control “failed”, the only way that would happen is if they had a very rare gene mutation which causes birth control not to work (which they’d find out very quickly) it’s more likely that they didn’t know how to use it properly and didn’t account for something that affects their protection as they weren’t educated about it. and they make these posts saying it “failed” because they don’t know that they made it fail

Most people either don’t realise they are not using their birth control correctly (the majority of pill users for example are not as well educated as most people who use this app btw) or are aware they didn’t use it correctly and are too embarrassed to admit it, it’s easier to blame birth control and laugh it off.

99% of the time it’s because they weren’t using their birth control correctly. “I got pregnant on birth control” yea.. but you were tripling up on pills because you missed three days. So incorrect use is definitely the major cause of it. I used to stress about it all the time. So as long as your taking your pills on time and everyday, you’re good!