This smells like a thinly veiled attempt at marketing for Freedom, rather than solving the problem. Sort of like "it's ok to binge drink all weekend because of this app, but not on a work day!" sort of mentality.
People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use
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Re: People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use
#12I just uninstalled the Facebook and Twitter apps. I can still log into the website if someone sends me a link, but there's more friction and there are no notifications pulling me in. Highly recommend.
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#13I uninstalled social media from my phone (I still have them on my desktop PC). I still have wahtsapp, but I turned off the notifications.
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#14Yet another newspaper talking about a new trend (that they possibly made up by cherry picking).
Re: People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use
#15I just uninstalled the Facebook and Twitter apps. I can still log into the website if someone sends me a link, but there's more friction and there are no notifications pulling me in. Highly recommend.
I found disabling notifications and moving the app off the Home Screen did the trick for me. I unintentionally weaned myself off Facebook. Facebook did this to themself. When they started throwing irrelevant push notifications at me I couldn’t turn off, I just disabled ALL of them. That was a dumbass invasive move on their part which I’m sure hurt more than it helped their engagement.
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#16How 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/
Yeah the problem with these (pipelines, compilations) is they last long enough to take some of your time but not long enough to, say, read a full article, complete a tutorial, watch an educational video from the beginning to end etc. So HN somehow falls nicely in there.
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#17Calling it that feels wrong to me. They're putting a label on people who ignore their manipulative trash. Plenty of people don't use social media, or watch news and movies, they're not in "monk mode"
Re: People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use
#18How 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/
Re: People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use
#19This smells like a thinly veiled attempt at marketing for Freedom, rather than solving the problem. Sort of like "it's ok to binge drink all weekend because of this app, but not on a work day!" sort of mentality.
Nobody prevents you from using Freedom in your free time as well. I have it blocking addicting sites 24/7 on all my smartphones, it has worked fairly well.
Re: People going 'monk mode' to limit social media use
#20What works best for me. Leaving phone at home when I meet people. It's not always possible, obviously, but if I know the address, I might take a db phone for emergencies. Or even, just a paper with the phone number.