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I Quit Social Media for a Year
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Re: I Quit Social Media for a Year
#362Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have a toxic mindset. Change that. https://www.fastcompany.com/3057869/how-social-media-is-tran... There's one of a million case studies.
I consider social media a place where you learn about other people. In the example you linked to, social media (in this case Facebook) is used more in a way to gather information. That is fine, but that was already possible in the days before we had social media, e g. through forums. While I applaud the particular use case, I don't consider this a strong argument in favor of social media.
It sounds like you've gerrymandered the definition of "social media" to exclude most of its positive qualities, leaving only the negative impacts, to be honest.
And there are hundreds of case studies like the one I linked to, and sure, it was "possible" in the days of internet forums the same way it was "possible" to send text messages in 1995.
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#363Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, I tend to see it like opioids, for example. Some people can just use their prescribed dosage and in the end they have no addiction whatsoever. Many more, even though they use their prescribed dosage, start an addiction which can lead to their lives getting ruined. I think the same happens with social media. There are people who are more prone to addiction than others. People close to me have claimed to have fel…
> Many more, even though they use their prescribed dosage, start an addiction which can lead to their lives getting ruined. I don't know if it's true that many more people prescribed opioids become addicted than not, and spreading such information harms people who do need them.
You're absolutely right, it seems I've made a typo inadvertently. It's true that less people become addicted than not.
Re: I Quit Social Media for a Year
#364Isn’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?
Ugh, an annoying trend has been ppl grouping in unrelated services under the moniker of 'social media'.
They are putting in so many different types of interactions that the label loses most of it's meaning. Then again I have this vague feeling that for ppl who's main online interactions facebook clones and twitter and they are trying to describe everything in terms of those.
Re: I Quit Social Media for a Year
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In between the SV hivemind posts is distributed just enough nuggets of mindblowing technical, business and even medical wisdom (from insanely switched-on people) that it keeps me checking. It's the ultimate infovore loot box.
Well said, finding compelling info on here is such a dopamine rush. Receiving a dopamine rush from learning something interesting is probably a good thing though.
Here's something interesting I'd like to share (if you don't already know of it):
https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=70
For the past ~2 years I've only been looking at HN through this link. This limits the amount of listings I can see, while at the same time ensuring "higher quality" dopamine rushes. It's worked out for me quite well with giving me what I want to see, while wasting less time sifting through uninteresting stuff. Pretty much like reddit's top vs. hot functionality, just changing my defaults.
Re: I Quit Social Media for a Year
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> Go speak to someone who has receieved life-saving healthcare in the developing world because of social media. Sounds like an unfair situation to me: the one with the most likes on Facebook gets the best healthcare? > Talk to someone who left their home country to travel across the world for a better life and only in the last 5 years have they been able to easily reconnect with their loved ones back home. As in: jus…
You have a toxic mindset. Change that. https://www.fastcompany.com/3057869/how-social-media-is-tran... There's one of a million case studies.
Found the Facebook employee
Re: I Quit Social Media for a Year
#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The means they were able to do it through were likely rich family (no one here of course will say their family is rich) and high paying job ($300k+/yr). Both of which I am not in (for my position in my region). I'm at a startup. Watching my peers, who are not in companies like mine, just skyrocket in wealth is rather discouraging. It's even more harsh because it's usually a couple who are sky rocketing and I'm just…
No - I think the wealth and income disparity was maybe not obvious enough? I'm literally sitting at half to a 1/4th of the income of my peers. (Either due to dual income, well compensated jobs, or both) Wealth wise - I practically build none because the cost of living for two people with one income is just outrageous here. My point is more that - I will never be able to buy a house.
If the startup you work at takes off, I assume you'd get some of the upside; catch-up to you peers.
Re: I Quit Social Media for a Year
#368Can't read the article Simmons. What the fuck dude?
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it repeatedly, and we ban accounts that post like that.
Re: I Quit Social Media for a Year
#369Earlier quoted context omitted.
No - I think the wealth and income disparity was maybe not obvious enough? I'm literally sitting at half to a 1/4th of the income of my peers. (Either due to dual income, well compensated jobs, or both) Wealth wise - I practically build none because the cost of living for two people with one income is just outrageous here. My point is more that - I will never be able to buy a house.
If the startup you work at takes off, I assume you'd get some of the upside; catch-up to you peers.
Yeah... Just gonna let you know that's a real shot in the dark.
I've been questioning whether I should even buy my options when I quit. I really have no faith in my current company.
Re: I Quit Social Media for a Year
#370A couple years ago I moved across Canada for work, and even after a couple years I still haven't met a ton of people here that aren't coworkers. And none of the people I met, I met over facebook. It was always through Meetup or Reddit. So long ago I uninstalled Facebook from my phone, and I have a localhost line to prevent my computer from going to the site. My phone has facebook messenger on it, and that's as far as I go, since that's how I stay in touch with most of my friends in BC. The messenger only option is fantastic, and taken even further by turning off those stupid floating chat bubbles. I can talk to them, but cannot see anything they post.
Do I feel like I missed anything about the people I care about? Yeah I kind of do, but mostly it's FOMO from seeing all my friends continue to do backpacking trips while I'm working in southern Ontario, so that's circumstantial. But on the whole? I couldn't care less. I had to turn off the localhost rule to sell some stuff on Marketplace, and I browsed my news feed for the first time in over a year, and it was a nightmare hellscape of stuff I just couldn't care less about. Better off with the filter.