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I enjoyed this writeup and it's well-timed for me. I'm going to try it! Anything you would add to the blacklist that you didn't initially?
If 30 days is too much, we're launching a free app that lets you cut off social media for 30 minutes at a time. https://monotask.com (downloadable now) We also have a pro version that lets you customize your whitelist and blacklist. We hope you use the time to make some awesome stuff!
I stopped using Facebook last November. It's been a fantastic experience. Whether you realize it or not, FB changes your emotional health. FB used to make me oddly depressed. Its like sitting in front of the TV and feasting on Sour Patch Kids for two hours. I would sit there staring at how awesome people's lives were and wonder why I wasn't doing such awesome things myself. I heard about the passing of family members…
I use FB once a day.
I treat it like a newspaper. A once-a-day update on friends lives that I poke at over a coffee, then throw away until the next day.
I find this a nice balance between having a "real" life, and maintaining some connections with folk that I otherwise wouldn't see socially very often.
Works for me. YMMV.
I stopped using Facebook last November. It's been a fantastic experience. Whether you realize it or not, FB changes your emotional health. FB used to make me oddly depressed. Its like sitting in front of the TV and feasting on Sour Patch Kids for two hours. I would sit there staring at how awesome people's lives were and wonder why I wasn't doing such awesome things myself. I heard about the passing of family members…
In the past 5 years, I've lived in 5 different cities across 3 different countries. My network of friends is very widespread geographically, and I love Facebook for being able to see pictures of my friends or read their random thoughts and what they're up to in life without hassles of long distance calls, scheduling skype sessions, time difference, etc. We often have lengthy conversations through comment threads or Facebook chat. In a way, I use Facebook a bit like a private message board with my close friends and family (this isn't hard for me as I was a big user of message boards as a teenager, so this habit of sharing life with people in a digitally written form is ingrained into me).
But I also go out to dinner with the friends in my current city, hang out and go out with them, text/call them to hear about how that job interview went, etc.
You can use Facebook in an "socially healthy" way, and not spend hours reading it passively.
(I also use Facebook in a semi-unusual way: I have 2 different accounts; one that has less than 50 friends and is not viewable publicly, where I post pictures, ask friends for advice, etc.; and one account with several hundreds of friends that I use as a "public" account. I also have a third account, that I don't really use, as I work a lot with kids and teenagers, and they tend to want to add me— this account is solely for that purpose).
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Category: adult-and-pornographyThis is a great blog post -- I can't help but feel like its an argument less against social media and more about how we use social media. I think it's particularly ironic that he singled out Reddit for providing "absolutely 0 value to me", since Reddit's original use was a news aggregator devoted to separating signal from noise. Nowadays, its a place for people to spout memes.
You have to groom your subreddit subscriptions.
My picks: askscience, 1000words, linguistics, science, somethingimade, DepthHub, books. All these largely contain interesting and productive discussions.
I stopped using Facebook last November. It's been a fantastic experience. Whether you realize it or not, FB changes your emotional health. FB used to make me oddly depressed. Its like sitting in front of the TV and feasting on Sour Patch Kids for two hours. I would sit there staring at how awesome people's lives were and wonder why I wasn't doing such awesome things myself. I heard about the passing of family members…
I learned that I never made enough of an impression for any of my friends to inquire where I was.
It was incredibly depressing because I exposed a lie to myself, that I had close friends.
I guess it's been neat, knowing the truth, but it was an expensive trade to obtain it. I've been back on there for a few months again, and sadly, even knowing none of those people actually think about me in their daily lives, it's once again a fantastic placebo.
So if you're sensitive and there's a chance your friends aren't really as close as you think, you should pause before you test every single one of them at the same time.
I stopped using Facebook last November. It's been a fantastic experience. Whether you realize it or not, FB changes your emotional health. FB used to make me oddly depressed. Its like sitting in front of the TV and feasting on Sour Patch Kids for two hours. I would sit there staring at how awesome people's lives were and wonder why I wasn't doing such awesome things myself. I heard about the passing of family members…
It's funny that people just can't do things in a balanced way, it always has to be all or nothing. In the past 5 years, I've lived in 5 different cities across 3 different countries. My network of friends is very widespread geographically, and I love Facebook for being able to see pictures of my friends or read their random thoughts and what they're up to in life without hassles of long distance calls, scheduling sky…
I stopped using Facebook last November. It's been a fantastic experience. Whether you realize it or not, FB changes your emotional health. FB used to make me oddly depressed. Its like sitting in front of the TV and feasting on Sour Patch Kids for two hours. I would sit there staring at how awesome people's lives were and wonder why I wasn't doing such awesome things myself. I heard about the passing of family members…
I ditched facebook about 2 years ago, for 14 months. I learned that I never made enough of an impression for any of my friends to inquire where I was. It was incredibly depressing because I exposed a lie to myself, that I had close friends. I guess it's been neat, knowing the truth, but it was an expensive trade to obtain it. I've been back on there for a few months again, and sadly, even knowing none of those people…
Well, did you ever inquire where they were?
I stopped using Facebook last November. It's been a fantastic experience. Whether you realize it or not, FB changes your emotional health. FB used to make me oddly depressed. Its like sitting in front of the TV and feasting on Sour Patch Kids for two hours. I would sit there staring at how awesome people's lives were and wonder why I wasn't doing such awesome things myself. I heard about the passing of family members…
I stopped using Facebook last November. It's been a fantastic experience. Whether you realize it or not, FB changes your emotional health. FB used to make me oddly depressed. Its like sitting in front of the TV and feasting on Sour Patch Kids for two hours. I would sit there staring at how awesome people's lives were and wonder why I wasn't doing such awesome things myself. I heard about the passing of family members…
It's funny that people just can't do things in a balanced way, it always has to be all or nothing. In the past 5 years, I've lived in 5 different cities across 3 different countries. My network of friends is very widespread geographically, and I love Facebook for being able to see pictures of my friends or read their random thoughts and what they're up to in life without hassles of long distance calls, scheduling sky…