New Delhi, Nov. 23 -- This week, I made the decision to quit Twitter.

It sounds like I'm letting go of an addiction, but for a Gen Z-er, social media is pivotal. I grew up right when dial-up connections were still around, and diligently finished my homework to get my 15 minutes of Facebook twice a week. I was eager to "cultivate" my crops on an online game called Farmville.

Every time I excitedly told my mother about the potatoes or brinjals I had "grown", she starkly reminded me that someday I should try my hand at watering some real crops (she grew up on a farm in Odisha).

While that was the beginning, Facebook still was for friends and the occasional hobbies. But Twitter? Twitter was where the world was at.

I could follow the thoug...