I'm curious, have you ever wanted to quit social media?
Have You Wanted to Quit Social Media?
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#2I quit facebook 2 years ago; I never had accounts on Instagram, TikTok, Snap. I spend 5 minutes a day on Twitter and LinkedIn. Done like this, it’s ok.
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#3I did so years ago with the only exception being HN, as we cannot deactivate it our account nor delete our content...which is a sad thing in my humble opinion.
No FaceBook, no LinkedIn, nothing; I have found my peace from narcissists and "successful" people that live in their fantasy world!
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#4I quit Facebook (and all others) like 5 years ago. I only have LinkedIn which I read maybe twice a month or once a week.
Sometimes (rarely) I think what it would be like to be able to make posts to bigger audience. But then I remember the algorithm and the reason it's there, to make you and Facebook closer, not me and my friends.
Thinking of my relationship for social media is like thinking those big decisions in life, out of curiosity, "What if I would've chosen stonemasonry?", as a fun exercise. But I'm never going back. Not as long as the rules and values are what they are now. Since they have not changed, I feel no reason to have it back.
Do I feel like I'm missing something? Yes, I'm certainly missing something, here and there. But in return I have free space in my system for something else.
Try for it, like for a month at first, see what you like in it and what not.
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#5I did quit Facebook over 10 years ago. It is easy to know who is a friend now, because real friends have my phone number, or email, or other non-"social" apps/services to contact me on.
Just pull the Facebook plug. Don't keep Messenger either. It's great.
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#6I quit facebook maybe seven years ago. I don't regret it one bit.
I joined Instagram because that was the only way to contact some friends. And progressively I get more and more into Instagram reels, which is tenacious, and bleeds into YouTube shorts, which is just the same thing but revenue for Google.
I'm annoyed that sharing memes is so fun to do with long-term, now distant (far away) friends.. we kick memes back and forth for a few months before one of us posts a larger life update: birth of a kid, marriage, job promotion, etc.
Reels are the only way I get a good chuckle with my mates now. And I don't like it.
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#7As much as everyone hates it, Facebook is the only social media site with an actual clear use case. If you drop out of general interest group pages, and join only pages with people you know in real life, mostly dedicated to planning events you'll attend in real life, Facebook is a mostly pleasant experience.
There's far too much advertising, of course, but I've developed some tricks to deal with that, too.
I was on Twitter very briefly. I'm experimenting intermittently with BlueSky and Mastodon. I'm mostly here, on Reddit, and at AskAManager.
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#8I never quit, but I dramatically reduced my usage, and generally changed how I interact with others online.
I am down to two subreddits that I visit by typing the URL in the address bar, and the orange site we all love. The other websites are write-only dumps where I interact with my website’s (very kind) followers. I don’t follow anyone and my feeds are literally empty. I use a Firefox extension to redirect from the feed to my notifications. I never tried TikTok or Instagram, and quitting the other hellsites was very easy post-covid; I just went outside.
Above all I just stopped engaging with bad faith comments. I just don’t get riled up by any of it anymore. I focus on positive interactions and lost interest in having the last word.
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#10I never quit, but I dramatically reduced my usage, and generally changed how I interact with others online. I am down to two subreddits that I visit by typing the URL in the address bar, and the orange site we all love. The other websites are write-only dumps where I interact with my website’s (very kind) followers. I don’t follow anyone and my feeds are literally empty. I use a Firefox extension to redirect from the…
Interesting. You never had the need of doing social media marketing? I often wonder how would healthy relationship with social media look like if that kind of marketing is needed.