Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has stopped using Facebook because of her "risk to public health"

The representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Explains that Facebook presents risks to the health, reason for which she decided to no longer use her account.

She said "Skullduggery"The Yahoo News Podcast Sunday said that" increased isolation, depression, anxiety, dependence and escape "are the consequences of being too much on social media.

"There are amplified impacts for young people, especially those under the age of 3 with screen time," she told Skullduggery. "But I think it has a lot of effects on the elderly."

Ocasio-Cortez described his separation from Facebook as a "big deal" because the platform was crucial to his campaign.

Her ability to use social media effectively prompted her to organize a very busy Twitter training session for other members of Congress in January.

"The best advice, in my opinion, is really to be yourself and write your own tweets so people know you're talking," Ocasio-Cortez told ABC News. after leaving class in January.

Ocasio-Cortez is still active on social media, posting on her own Twitter and Instagram accounts, but during the interview with "Skullduggery" she explained that she had reorganized her lifestyle with regard to regards the use of social media.

"I started to impose small rules," she said. "I take consumption and reading during the week, but on weekends I do not scroll down to see what journalists are writing."

And even though Ocasio-Cortez has decided to stop using Facebook, her personal Facebook page remains active with several campaigns sponsored by "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress". One of these advertisements calls for support for his signature, Green New Deal.