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Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

dvcrn wrote: post #470

I'm wondering if there is a simple trick / way to keep social media around without getting too addicted too it. I can completely 100% relate to this article and am scared by it. However, I can't just shut my accounts down. The advantages they give me over a life without them are just things that I don't want to miss out. I feel "blessed" of having even the opportunity to use amazing worldwide connected tools like fac…

I can't just shut my accounts down.

Yes, you can.

When I deleted my Facebook account the first thing I noticed is that I did not die.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by webscalist »

Not everyone worships their career.

You can of course get rid of TV, music, theater, art, books, .. out of your life and focus only on your career skills development.

Social media is young generation's way of life. It's such a valuable communication channel for teens. Embrace it. Teach them and yourself how to use it to your benefit in moderation.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by chris_wot »

_audakel wrote: post #394
chris_wot wrote: post #382

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Hacker News is actually a high quality medium and I God it pretty information dense. Facebook, on the other hand, gives me lots of videos of stuff that is utterly useless, and often just makes you feel angry about the world. I'm using it less and less. Twitter I don't use at all. I don't even read it.

Twitter really depends on who you follow. I don't follow friends, but thought leaders I respect. I get r of the best ideas and all my news from there

One thing that HN has done is make my comments look ridiculous when I type them out on an iPhone.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by bbcbasic »

sean_patel wrote: post #460

> I would take a 45 minute dump just catching up on stuff ROFL. That's 1 long helluva a Dump. Hope you don't have roommates or a large family.

Probably a dump followed by bowels being open for too long. This is bad for you I've heard. Best to dump n go... and then procrastinate elsewhere.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by yosito »

dvcrn wrote: post #470

I'm wondering if there is a simple trick / way to keep social media around without getting too addicted too it. I can completely 100% relate to this article and am scared by it. However, I can't just shut my accounts down. The advantages they give me over a life without them are just things that I don't want to miss out. I feel "blessed" of having even the opportunity to use amazing worldwide connected tools like fac…

Flag your Facebook account for permanent deletion and then go on a two week vacation without your computer or phone. By the time you get back, you'll be over the hump of needing a social media hit, and your list of Facebook friends will be gone, which is a good barrier to re-entry. Same for Twitter. Getting rid of Reddit, HN, etc might be harder, but if your habits haven't changed after two weeks, you could also set up a hosts file to block problem sites before your vacation.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by sean_patel »

bitwize wrote: post #461
sean_patel wrote: post #460

> I would take a 45 minute dump just catching up on stuff ROFL. That's 1 long helluva a Dump. Hope you don't have roommates or a large family.

Word. Your plumber be like "she's overloaded, Captain, she cannae hold out much longer!"

LOL. You guys are killing me. Why all the downvotes? HN crowds seems to be a very serious lot.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by sjayasinghe »

duck wrote: post #428
WA wrote: post #334

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Have you checked if the articles in your Pocket share something, for example upvotes or number of comments? Because then you could browse the top posts only once per week. Either via Hckrnews [1] or use the curated Hacker Newsletter [2]. [1]: http://hckrnews.com/ [2]: http://www.hackernewsletter.com/

Thanks for mentioning Hacker Newsletter! I hear from several subscribers a week (currently have almost 40k) that mention it has helped them cure/control their HN addiction. :)

I'm getting an access denied error when trying to subscribe

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by majewsky »

sjg007 wrote: post #450
Veen wrote: post #35

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> I've recently been finding it really hard to concentrate on my work I've overcome my Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter problems, but I can't seem to shake Hacker News.

I'm making an AI to recommend articles so you can check it once a day or get email alerts for ones you want to comment on. Downside is you have to train it.

Will it be able to do something like "send me articles about Ruby on Rails, but only if the author hates Rails"? :)

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by sean_patel »

rjromero wrote: post #345
hashtagMERKY wrote: post #31

This part really resonated with me: > Consider that the ability to concentrate without distraction on hard tasks is becoming increasingly valuable in an increasingly complicated economy. Social media weakens this skill because it’s engineered to be addictive. The more you use social media in the way it’s designed to be used — persistently throughout your waking hours — the more your brain learns to crave a quick hit…

I'm curious, what is it in the human psyche that causes us to have such a desire to stay plugged in to social media? Especially when the content we go through usually only ends up white noise to us.

It's a combination of 2 very primitive (and hence innate) human instinct - Anxiety and Pleasure.

Anxiety - It's also called FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). If all our friends and family are on Facebook and we don't constantly login and read the feeds, we feel like we are "missing out" on all the fun and exicting stuff going on around us.

Pleasure - Social Media feeds our ego and give us pleasure when we post pics and "updates" and then few minutes later, a RED Icon notification pops up showing that so and so liked your post, commented on it etc. There is a reason why Facebook has no DISLIKE button. Don't forget 'Zuck' is a Psychology Minor.

Related Reading: "What is driving people to constantly check in with social media" => https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rewired-the-psychology-...

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by badsock »

tajen wrote: post #431
prospero wrote: post #316

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Calling other races well-suited to slavery isn't political, it's hate speech.

It's up to a juge to decide that. If the population decides, it's called lynching.

Absolute hyperbole. Lynching is when someone is killed. Dropping a speaker from a conference schedule isn't murder.
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