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People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use

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Re: People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use

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Post by corobo »

psychlops wrote: post #43
corobo wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arguably the difference there is that the monk mode has made a sacrifice (did have, now does not) rather than not having in the first place. Depends on how you define 'monk' I guess :)

The article unironically explains where the term originated: >The term has gone viral on TikTok, where videos marked with the hashtag #monkmode now have more than 77 million views, up from 31 million in May.

I was talking about the definition, the parent commenter's definition at that, not the origin.

I'm not sure how that information fits in here, sorry.

Re: People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use

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Post by cmcaleer »

lopis wrote: post #8
cph123 wrote: post #5

How many of us are currently distracted checking HN rather than concentrating on our work?

Just waiting for CI to finish running. It's the new "compiling" [0]. [0] https://xkcd.com/303/

Exactly this, but my model is training.

Re: People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use

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Post by davidthewatson »

I think you need an absurdist lens to not get lost here. Camus had a point.

Think about it, I could say I'm going to adopt a modal diet, which is really what monk mode is, a modal diet of information attention.

How would my modal diet work? One day, fasting, the next day, a steady stream of alcohol, coffee, cigarettes, and processed food.

Consistency is key.

As technical people, we know this from reading the history from Pirsig (ZMM) to Nielsen-Norman:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/modal-nonmodal-dialog/

Asceticism has never scaled, much like the hacker news post today about intimacy not scaling, or the fact that modality in design was more about making it easy for implementors than making it easy for consumers.

Monks have been and will always be ascetic. There's nothing ascetic about taking a time-honored tradition and using it to mis-label the behavior of people who are overwhelmed by water they cannot breathe but cannot ignore.

Re: People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use

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Post by ikedeno »

corobo wrote: post #51
psychlops wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article unironically explains where the term originated: >The term has gone viral on TikTok, where videos marked with the hashtag #monkmode now have more than 77 million views, up from 31 million in May.

I was talking about the definition, the parent commenter's definition at that, not the origin. I'm not sure how that information fits in here, sorry.

The authoritive BBC are saying in short "your peers will call you a monk if you switch off" - they are branding those who choose to ignore media. I don't care where they say it came from, they are perpetuating it. (Also seems disrespectful to actual monks? I don't know)

Re: People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use

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Post by adammarples »

dharmab wrote: post #50
m-i-l wrote: post #23

Today I learned that people pay money for an app that stops them from using a (probably expensive) phone. And not just a few people, but enough for the Freedom app to have 2 investment rounds and 11-50 employees[0]. Is it just me, or does that sound like something has gone horribly wrong somewhere? Why not just mute all notifications, or put the phone on silent or airplane mode, or switch it off, or even just replace…

I used one of these programs (a free one) to cold turkey quit Reddit after the API shenanigans. Why not just mute notifications? I had already muted them, but found myself opening Reddit when I had downtime. Why not just put the phone on silent mode? Because my job requires me to be reachable by phone, and I want some close family and friends to reach me. Also, I already muted the problem apps/sites- see above. Why n…

Well I "just" deleted the reddit app and it worked 100%

Re: People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use

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Post by dharmab »

adammarples wrote: post #55
dharmab wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used one of these programs (a free one) to cold turkey quit Reddit after the API shenanigans. Why not just mute notifications? I had already muted them, but found myself opening Reddit when I had downtime. Why not just put the phone on silent mode? Because my job requires me to be reachable by phone, and I want some close family and friends to reach me. Also, I already muted the problem apps/sites- see above. Why n…

Well I "just" deleted the reddit app and it worked 100%

Oh, I never had the official app. I was using the website.

Re: People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use

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Post by softg »

Kiro wrote: post #38
reedf1 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm convinced that procrastination is not the problem with social media - it is FOMO. In this regard social media are not all equal, there is a hierarchy. In this way hackernews as social media is nearly a misnomer, I am not being projected upon by the perfect life of a billion people, algorithmically picked by my insecurities.

HN is much worse. Nothing gives me more anxiety than this place.

Why?

Re: People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use

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Post by softg »

reedf1 wrote: post #24
cph123 wrote: post #5

How many of us are currently distracted checking HN rather than concentrating on our work?

I'm convinced that procrastination is not the problem with social media - it is FOMO. In this regard social media are not all equal, there is a hierarchy. In this way hackernews as social media is nearly a misnomer, I am not being projected upon by the perfect life of a billion people, algorithmically picked by my insecurities.

HN feels like a traditional php forum with old reddit code.

Re: People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use

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Post by dizhn »

rco8786 wrote: post #42
m-i-l wrote: post #23

Today I learned that people pay money for an app that stops them from using a (probably expensive) phone. And not just a few people, but enough for the Freedom app to have 2 investment rounds and 11-50 employees[0]. Is it just me, or does that sound like something has gone horribly wrong somewhere? Why not just mute all notifications, or put the phone on silent or airplane mode, or switch it off, or even just replace…

> Why not just Anytime this phrase is used, you can bet it’s followed up with something fallacious. Similar to the famous “why not just us rsync?” Comment about Dropbox.

Much like how most replies that start with "So ..." are strawmen. :)

Re: People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use

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Post by kelipso »

rco8786 wrote: post #42
m-i-l wrote: post #23

Today I learned that people pay money for an app that stops them from using a (probably expensive) phone. And not just a few people, but enough for the Freedom app to have 2 investment rounds and 11-50 employees[0]. Is it just me, or does that sound like something has gone horribly wrong somewhere? Why not just mute all notifications, or put the phone on silent or airplane mode, or switch it off, or even just replace…

> Why not just Anytime this phrase is used, you can bet it’s followed up with something fallacious. Similar to the famous “why not just us rsync?” Comment about Dropbox.

> Anytime this phrase is used

Anytime this phrase is used, you can bet it’s followed up with some crazy generalization lol.

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