I tried to quit clubhouse but couldn’t. We are suffering from loneliness in this world.
You're suffering. I'm fine. Stop using "we" when you mean "I". If I wanted to speak for me I'd pay you.
My life after quitting social media
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#162Ive quit FB and Twitter, never had IG.
Hacker News and soemtimes Reddit is all I visit.
I did feel better after quitting Twitter, seeing as what an rage fest it was
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#163I quit social media for a year and nothing magical happened to me. I think it's because I never really had a problem with it, since all my feeds were heavily curated and I didn't scroll through mountains of noise. The content I consume is always high quality, because I made social media work for me. I avoid Instagram since it's too visual and full of posers. Twitter is more real and authentic. Facebook is mostly for…
I'm at almost a week since looking at Facebook. Like you, I curated the content pretty well, but also wanted to avoid it being an echo chamber, so I don't think I unfriended more than 5 people in a decade because I disagree with them politically. Those were only because they were constantly posting inflammatory memes, always picking fights, and full of negativity. I don't need that in my life or in my feed. A few wee…
they want to know who you are, what you like, what you'll buy
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#164I recommended it in a similar discussion before, but Cal Newport's "Digital Minimalism" offers reasonable ways to introduce intermittent fasting patterns into your social media consumption vs quitting cold turkey. Some sample strategies to adopt: 1) Mobile sites only, never apps. Always log out when done to increase the friction of subsequent logins. The most insidious pattern of mindless engagement is when you're bo…
What would Cal have us do on the can, if not doom scroll Twitter?
memorise the ingredients list on the shampoo bottle, at least that's what I do when I forget to take my phone to the bathroom.
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#166I quit all social media outside of forums about 5 years ago. I would say my life is better. I cannot think of one thing I miss from it or one benefit it provided that I would go back for.
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#167I quit Facebook and Twitter around 2008, and the biggest downside in all that time was finding out about my niece's birth days later than everyone else in the family, because it was only announced on Facebook. Not a huge issue in the scheme of things. The biggest upside is that I'm completely disengaged with a lot of things people are angry about, because they aren't on my radar at all. In practice, I don't find that…
> In practice, I don't find that closely following breaking news is all that useful to me, since I'm not in a position to do anything about it, and it just makes me anxious to worry about things which are out of my control.
Bingo. This is why I never got into the habit of watching the news at all. This exact line of thinking.
This is also why I think society is kind of mad. I can clearly see when the news has people in their grip because then everyone talks about what happened, and eventually almost everyone has the same opinion about what happened (which is the opinion the news has given them and put in their heads).
I wonder if people in the west realise there is propaganda here too, and it's not just in Russia and China.
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#168Maybe this is type of interaction involved.
Formally, I was bit more active on Facebook. I still have an account (for Oculus, mostly) but I've scaled down my presence on Facebook a lot. I found signal to noise ratio not great on Facebook. There's maybe one in fifty or so post that worthwhile to look at.
I'm still fairly active on Twitter and Discord -- mainly because I'm so involved in VR stuff, and that's where a lot of people socialize and coordinate projects. (at least for Japanese people that I deal with a lot.)
Personally, I think this is more of the shift from contextual (WHO I am interacting with) to content based (WHAT I am interacting about), and I find latter more meaningful and productive. Last couple of years on Facebook really didn't provide much of value to my life. There are also bit of junks on Twitter, too, but they are generally short and I can skim things on Twitter and generally it's easy to pick out things that matter the most for me.
This also could be coming from that I'm following a lot more strangers (that share interesting things) on Twitter -- as opposed to subset of people I know on Facebook, too. Facebook I guess allows this to certain degrees ("following" someone without friending) but I don't think this is primary use case on Facebook, making it fairly useless.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Merzbow has an ironicly titled song name: "Become the discovered, not the discoverer"
+1 for Merzbow
Yeah I'm still exploring the noise scene so if you have any recommends please do share.
I never thought I would be able to work through the music, but damn there are some really good entries in the genre.