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These anti Facebook and anti social media articles are so ubiquitous on hn now, that is starting to feel like a campaign. All too sudden, there is too many of them.
Anti-facebook articles have been common on HN for years, and it's particularly ubiquitous right now because of all the powerful negative influence it's having in politics.
Read, negative toward my side of the politics.
Fast food serves a lot of purposes though. It's not healthy, but it feeds people, it's cheap and it lets you spend your time on something else. Facebook really has few reasons to be around anymore outside the fact that it has a lot of users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
In my town the cause of the food deserts was the theft rates. There used to be groceries in the poor parts of town... It simply wasn't economical to keep them open because they couldn't make money doing so. I'm not blaming poor people for stealing per se (it's at least partly a symptom of poverty) but people make food deserts out to be some grand conspiracy on behalf of food companies when it's really caused by more emergent phenomena that are very hard to fix
I also dont get all that hate either. Just use it as a tool for what its good for. For me that is mainly to stay in the know about (1) events hosted by friends, (2) activities in common interest groups, (3) the life of friends and family overseas. - Dont use your real name, gender, nationality, etc. Just create a random identity. - Dont post pictures, ask friends to not post pics of you. Remove all tags. NEVER EVER P…
> Ask yourself, do I really need and care for this contact? Remove people that do not add value to your life. I do a different test. It's called "Do you care about me?" If I got in a car crash over the weekend, would you even know? If you found out, would you visit me in the hospital? If the answer is yes: but they're family, I already have their contact info. For non-family, that group fluctuates, and more often tha…
Work is important, but your work can't love you back.
Ever since deleting facebook I've felt so much ___. It's only once I quit the site I was able to take a long hard look at my perception of ____ and realized that everyone else does ____ while I should do _____. I realized that I'm actually ____, not ____. I started handling my _____ relationships in a healthier, more ____ manner.
I deleted my Facebook in 2010 and it stayed deleted until the end of 2016. Now I get invited to more events, my friends no longer feel like distant strangers when I see them for the first time in months and I know how all my family is doing. It really sucks seeing how much more of a life some people have through facebook but research is a lifestyle and I knew what I signed up for. Your miles may vary though as I have…
^^^ And this is the type of mentality that makes me not want to use social media :tm:.
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> I also dont get all that hate either. Well, start with reading your list. That's a nice list of reasons to hate Facebook. People shouldn't have to tip toe around abusive data harvesting and dark patterns... Your list sounds like a symptom, not a solution.
Agreed, the first point reads like the OP is evading the Stasi >Dont use your real name, gender, nationality, etc. Just create a random identity
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> Ask yourself, do I really need and care for this contact? Remove people that do not add value to your life. I do a different test. It's called "Do you care about me?" If I got in a car crash over the weekend, would you even know? If you found out, would you visit me in the hospital? If the answer is yes: but they're family, I already have their contact info. For non-family, that group fluctuates, and more often tha…
Organizing your life to minimize "drama, breakups, [and] regrets" and maximize "time to get work done" is a good way to end up unhappy and lonely. Work is important, but your work can't love you back.
When you come across compulsive narcissism, you run. No man can compete with the self-esteem hugbox that makes the (small) moral panic over helicopter kids, a decade ago,seem quaint.
Most of the drama is done either by women on birth control, women on antidepressants, and bipolar women. If you find "drama", run. They will never change.
I confess, most of what I consume via the internet is of little use to me. Sure, some of it might be interesting; some of it my present itself as relevant; but most of it (the truth is) life would go on without it. Don't take this the wrong way, but push come to shove, HN falls into this low truly impactful life nutrition as well. This is not a critique. It's just that despite my semi-best attempts the signal to noic…
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> Ask yourself, do I really need and care for this contact? Remove people that do not add value to your life. I do a different test. It's called "Do you care about me?" If I got in a car crash over the weekend, would you even know? If you found out, would you visit me in the hospital? If the answer is yes: but they're family, I already have their contact info. For non-family, that group fluctuates, and more often tha…
Organizing your life to minimize "drama, breakups, [and] regrets" and maximize "time to get work done" is a good way to end up unhappy and lonely. Work is important, but your work can't love you back.
Work is where we spend the majority of our time and I suspect that >50% of adult friendship originates at work. It is important to think of work as a social activity and put some effort. Even if you are very much a "work to live" person, it is worth knowing your co-workers well enough to decide if you want to pursue them as friends.
I confess, most of what I consume via the internet is of little use to me. Sure, some of it might be interesting; some of it my present itself as relevant; but most of it (the truth is) life would go on without it. Don't take this the wrong way, but push come to shove, HN falls into this low truly impactful life nutrition as well. This is not a critique. It's just that despite my semi-best attempts the signal to noic…