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I deleted my social media accounts
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Re: I deleted my social media accounts
#402I stay in touch with ppl that are important to me by writing or calling them once every 2 months. I do not care if they do the same. I am old now (almost 30) and came to the realization that all of our lifes are packet and busy and ppl are very bad at keeping up with other ppl that are not continuously presented to them. This is the price I have to pay to not be on instagram: writing my friends and ask them how they…
Old at 30? Jesus - you need to lighten up!
Almost 30... so 28. I have to say at 40 I'm feeling "different". Like "can I wear sling bags?"
Re: I deleted my social media accounts
#403I stay in touch with ppl that are important to me by writing or calling them once every 2 months. I do not care if they do the same. I am old now (almost 30) and came to the realization that all of our lifes are packet and busy and ppl are very bad at keeping up with other ppl that are not continuously presented to them. This is the price I have to pay to not be on instagram: writing my friends and ask them how they…
Surely that's a joke "I am old now (almost 30)"
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#404Earlier quoted context omitted.
It went weirdly assumed that HN is somehow different. I don't believe in social media addiction, but addicts are known for lying to themselves and making excuses. If you're quitting social media because you don't think it's healthy, you need to look at any social media you're still on really closely.
There are several key things that make HN different: - no followers / following (no incentive to increase engagement) - no notifications of responses to comments (maybe there's a way to do this with RSS but at least it's not obvious) - no ads - no endless feed HN is much more like an RSS feed of interesting articles, where people can leave comments -- there is some back and forth (as in this case) but not a lot; it's…
> no notifications of responses to comments
If you notice you keep hitting the "threads" link, then perhaps there is a case of addiction.
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#405Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I am old now (almost 30) I'm 45 and wondering if I should be offended by this....
I'm > 60 and if you can find me somewhere to sit and watch while I catch my breath you can beat the young whippersnapper about the upper body with my zimmer frame. ( TBH I still split wood by hand and walk long trails, etc. My father (born 1935) is showing signs of age now )
> I still split wood by hand
That's incredible. Everyone I know is using an axe these days.
Re: I deleted my social media accounts
#406Why can't the EU build their own social media platform? What if they structured the financing like they do with science?
You are targeting an order of magnitude larger organization than it's necessary. The EU doesn't build anything, people in countries do.
The problem with the EU market is that if I launched anything social, I'm immediately hit with a localization problem so I have to launch first either in English (you lost 53% of people)* or start with a few select countries first with their native language.
It's kinda a mess. Money is not really the issue with EU startups, it's the cultural fragmentation.
There are also many small niche social platforms, but of course nothing like FB/X/etc..
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#407Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm > 60 and if you can find me somewhere to sit and watch while I catch my breath you can beat the young whippersnapper about the upper body with my zimmer frame. ( TBH I still split wood by hand and walk long trails, etc. My father (born 1935) is showing signs of age now )
> I still split wood by hand That's incredible. Everyone I know is using an axe these days.
We ancients have honed our strength through decades of punching sand.
Any similarity to tech sector corporate politics is purely coincidental.
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#408Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a firm believer being loosely connected to so many people isn't the fix many seem to think it is. I find shallow connections, which is about all social media can support IMO, are worthless at best and detrimental at worst. YMMV, but my quality of life increased in ways I can't even begin to describe by severing all the dozens or perhaps hundreds of shallow connections social media was encouraging me to cling to.…
This kind of comment always makes me wonder, are the people doing this doing well financially to afford cutting off all those "loose" connections with people like that? Because I couldn't imagine just destroying these relationships for no reason when I myself have benefited vastly from keeping them alive, even if barely communicating at all with these people. I think this advice is generally harmful to networking as…
1. LinkedIn.
2. Keep the other accounts, just in case.
3. How exactly are remote connections helping? In the Western world, for example, people you haven't interacted with for months and months in real life for sure won't help you financially. For jobs stuff like LinkedIn is probably better, plus regular chats on 1 instant messenger. You don't need Instagram to keep up with them.
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#409Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm > 60 and if you can find me somewhere to sit and watch while I catch my breath you can beat the young whippersnapper about the upper body with my zimmer frame. ( TBH I still split wood by hand and walk long trails, etc. My father (born 1935) is showing signs of age now )
> I still split wood by hand That's incredible. Everyone I know is using an axe these days.
Time marches on, the generation younger than yourself and your axe wielding anachronisms are using hydraulic and pnuematic rams now .. with solar charged battery operated pumps.
Come, come and join the elders . . .
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#410Earlier quoted context omitted.
also in the old days, your friend bob would have told cory, "hey, did you hear alice's dad died? we should all go out for drinks". but we live in the bowling alone era, where we're increasingly isolated. quitting social media is not, on its own, going to fix your social life. and being on social media can make you more connected, or more miserable. the responsibility is yours
In my circle, very few people maintain a social media presence. I cannot remember posting anything on social media myself - except maybe a job update on LinkedIn, and some light anonymous trolling on X. I don't have Facebook or Instagram accounts and so I never visit those sites anymore (as they require an account to read). Spending a lot of time posting on social media is seen as unintelligent, attention whoring, an…
> In my circle, very few people maintain a social media presence.
You are not characteristic for the population at large (neither am I, don't feel sad :-) ).