There's a lot of pressure to always stay informed and know what's going on (I imagine even more so if your family are journalists), but it just isn't feasible to process it at the speed it comes on social media I've found. Especially because as you says it's often news and opinions mixed together.

I deleted my twitter last year and stopped looking at facebook and most news websites and felt a lot better for it. I only dip in and out of it now and stop if I can feel it starting to stress me out.