It’s Not Too Late to Quit Social Media

https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-not-too-late-to-quit-social-media-11548457601

by jkuria • 7 years ago

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optxr2• 7 years ago

https://outline.com/t7xjLD

hypeibole• 7 years ago

I didn't know about outline and now I love it, thank you very much.

kshitij_libra• 7 years ago

How to quit YouTube addiction . Social media is still doable imo but YouTube is just a dopamine doze I can’t seem to quit

FartyMcFarter• 7 years ago

One possibility:

Instead of quitting, just find interesting videos which teach you something useful and/or fulfilling, or which intensify your non-youtube interests. This may make it more likely that you'll gradually use youtube less?

optxr2• 7 years ago

Thankfully I'm immune to this. I hate videos with a passion.

CuriousSkeptic• 7 years ago

My attempt at an approach:

Disable auto-play.

Never click on a “recommended” video.

Subscribe to channels with high quality content.

Basically be picky, and make sure to be the one selecting what to watch.

ardy42• 7 years ago

Never click on a “recommended” video.

Hiding the recommended videos bar on YouTube would be a great use for an adblock rule.

drunkpotato• 7 years ago

I hope this sparks a lively discussion on the pros and cons of social media, but on a meta level I’m bothered that this is basically a book release announcement dressed up as an article. Why not just do an honest book review?

CM30• 7 years ago

Seems like there's a huge glut of articles about quitting social media recently. Which is fine, it's not a good thing to be addicted to these sites and their effects on society are questionable, but these articles don't really seem to be making much difference here. What can actually be done to get people to drop Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/Instagram/whatever?

tsmarsh• 7 years ago

I’m a year in to having less social media no: facebook, twitter, instagram.

I mean, I quit them because they were irritating me, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that removing an irritent from my life feels like a relief.

The one remaining dreg of reason I might want to get back is local sales and sports groups which seem to be on Facebook exclusively. But thats about it.

miki123211• 7 years ago

outline shows "something went wrong". Flagged for posting a link to paywalled content. HN should ban this, I don't see the point tbh.

yogthos• 7 years ago

I don't think social media is inherently problematic. Mastodon is a great example of social media being done right where the platform is driven by the community and avoids all the problems of corporate platforms like Fb and Twitter. The real problem is with social media being run by companies that monetize their users.

simonblack• 7 years ago

I'm about two weeks in from quitting reddit completely.

A. I have so much more time available.

B. I have never been so productive. One programming project that had been languishing for months has progressed from 'hopeless case' to 'aha!' to 'plain sailing'.

C. Those extraneous matters raised by reddit topics aren't cluttering up my brain.

sjg0072• 7 years ago

Reddit is kind of like playing Call of Duty multiplayer as a noob. You basically going get knocked out in the first 30 seconds. Or otherwise get no response. HN is similar.. most of the time a comment is either misinterpreted or ignored completely.

KozmoNau7• 7 years ago

Reddit does have some good niche subject subreddits, but you absolutely have to stay out of the big frontpage subs.

sjg0072• 7 years ago

For a guy that doesn't use social media, he sure knows a lot about it..

It’s Not Too Late to Quit Social Media

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