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That is quite unnecessarily extreme for any threat model. Even if we ignore your bringing of a thermonuclear bomb to this metaphorical fist fight, most social media sites block Tor and require a lot of PII to even begin consuming content, so you'd probably be better off practicing self control and avoiding those sites entirely.
I agree about avoiding the sites entirely. That is the best approach.
I disagree about running Qubes and Whonix. It's actually so easy - there's no reason not to try it.
(Unless you're in a country where using Tor is penalized.)
I don't mean to say that running / installing Qubes or Whonix is difficult per se, as a matter of fact I use both on my main machine, rather it's not very intuitive to set up as, and likely far beyond the threatmodel of, someone brand new to privacy.