Great experience, but I just can’t say goodbye to facebook, it just magnetically drags me in. I understand all the mechanisms for displaying relevant posts and ads, but I can not resist viewing them.
I Quit Social Media for a Year
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#352Earlier quoted context omitted.
I quit social media two years ago, and while I think I am generally happier and less anxious, I am also left out. When everyone else has seen someone's new baby pictures or a picture from the summit of a mountain. Sadly, I am growing apart from my friends faster.
> When everyone else has seen someone's new baby pictures or a picture from the summit of a mountain Did you just say you like seeing pictures of other people's babies ?
When its people I genuinely know and have a relationship with, yes. Its pretty fascinating to see the evolution of the lives and families of my friends and acquaintances.
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#353Frankly I'm a little bored at these "quit social media" articles. They look sort of all the same to me. Quitting altogether is simple, because there's only one way to do it; quitting altogether. Moderation, on the other hand, is more interesting because there are a number of ways to moderate its use; not just limiting time but also limiting use cases. I'd like to know more about the latter.
I suppose I’m using it moderately by using some quasi social platforms like HN.
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#354"I feel by far less distracted. My attention span feels more robust than it ever has." I would consider this magical.
It’s magical only in contrast to the individual in the grips of a social media addiction. I’m about 30 and can remember a time before social media, so it feels more like a return to normal to me.
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#355I've been off Facebook for about a year now as well... Lets see the effects have been, a lot less options for dating, lost communication with a ton of various car parts companies and tuners (I was into a lot of car hobbies for a while), and overall I feel more alone then I did when I was on Facebook. But this is an honest way to live, I used to just sit there and scroll through other peoples lives peering through the…
Out of that loneliness comes the fuel to change how you handle your life. Eventually you’ll want to avoid it by interacting with humans in real life, which is normal and healthy.
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#356I did it for a year too! deleted fb/insta/twitter accounts for a year. a lot of good things happened. 1. Never bothered about taking photos for everyshit I did. 2. A lot of white space and time I got, to be empty. Not sure if I used them enough. But white space yes! 100% 3. I never grazed useless info off the feed. in the middle of the year, i tried an experiment. created a twitter/fb accounts and followed some of th…
I am envious. I know that I don’t have the self control to use those social media platforms right now. Some people have it though!
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#357Isn’t hacker news social media? Karma points are no different from retweets or likes surely? And then isn’t reading nyt’s comment section social “media” too? At what point is engaging with media that has some collaboration from peers different from the big three social sites? Should there be a case made for quitting these too?
I would call it quasi social media. The relative anonymity of HN (I don’t know any of you IRL) helps me view this more like IRC chat from the late 90s
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#358I quit social media four years ago and all that happened is I got 3 hours per day of my life back.
Succinctly put! I don’t disagree.
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#359This write-up really ends up understating the benefits and "magical" things that actually did happen, but I fully approve of the understated approach. Hyping everything up is part of the problem. If something is beneficial, I shouldn't need to sell you on it; I can just tell you about it, and you can decide. (In fact it's almost an intrusion into your free will when I start persuading you, and it betrays some vested…
> If I'm a worthwhile and valid human being, I shouldn't need to sell you on me, and maintain this continual online sales platform for the "me" product. You can discover it on your own and maybe reach the conclusion that I'm awesome, or maybe not, but either way it's fine. Presuming that you aren't the type of person who spends all their time out in public giving talks or something, how are you expecting people to "d…
Sure, I'm not saying it has no use case. If anything it sounds like you're using it for one of the classic things computers are used for - essentially creating data so others can run a query on it like any other CRUD app. The part I like a whole lot less is basically the part that's been there ever since we entered Eternal September!
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#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious where in the US Constitution you think it states that discrimination on the basis of LGBTQ identity is legal. The question is about changing federal law to make LGBTQ identity a protected class, under the same principle that race, gender, religion, etc are currently protected.
The first amendment.
The first amendment protects the right to fire someone on the basis of their LGBTQ identity?