It’s a rare day I find myself agreeing with Prince Harry, and to be clear, I’m not really agreeing with him here, but I do hear what he’s saying about social media.

It’s a toxic vipers nest that’s spiralled out of control real quick. For every positive it’s done in opening the world up, you can probably find a negative in terms of what it’s done to promote distance, acrimony and anxiety, and close the world in on itself.

Prince Harry says he abhors social media and blames the division it causes for a lot of the world’s problems.

It was reported recently that he and Megan Markle had quit social media, which sort of is and isn’t true.

He claims they didn’t really have anything to quit – but they have stepped away from their Sussexes Instagram page in terms of not using it to promote their charities anymore.

He took a stab at not just users of social media – who he says need to be more compassionate – but also the platforms who run it. He said they need to be more accountable and less motivated by just the money side of things.

I’m not sure you’ve read the room when you’re asking big tech to be less motivated by money, but he was also taken to task for saying that by some who said it was hypocritical he’d be lecturing people about shirking responsibility for money, given they could argue that’s exactly what he and Megan Markle have done.

But Harry’s points about it being the Wild, Wild West and full of vile comments, cancel culture and acrimony, are quite true.

The internet is increasingly off putting. I haven’t looked back since quitting Twitter years ago – I literally have not spent one single second missing it. Facebook too: we have a show presence on there and I had a personal profile once upon a time when my sister lived overseas and it was a way of keeping in touch – but she’s quit all social media these days and I’m down to just one platform - Instagram.

One platform is plenty for me, I don’t have the time or the inclination to be omnipresent on all platforms. I don’t need that much engagement with a virtual world when I’m busy living my real one.

I certainly don’t need to be notified daily of what some troll may think of me or what some random keyboard warrior had to say. Why give it the oxygen?

My husband has zero social media, he deplores it, which is probably helpful given a lot of my Instagram is taking the piss out of him and he remains oblivious to that.

But I think where Prince Harry and I part company is that I do not expect big tech to change the way they run these things.

I mean, Harry’s obviously got global clout and maybe he believes he can effect change, and I really wish him all the best with that.

But the reality I think is that the ugly state of the internet is here for a while, and we just have to either learn how to deal with it, or quit it. And if we quit it, then actually we win against big tech anyway.