Quitting Social Media

[yerrag]

and then happily miss out on everything else.

Very happy not knowing what you're missing actually

 

[akgrrrl]

I dropped Facebook years ago.
I dropped Linked-In. Ended up getting a job thru Indeed.
I also discourage texting.

All of these require a constant care and feeding.
People got angry because I did not respond in their perceived timeframe.

Cal Newport books/interviews are excellent for support in making this choice:
Digital Minimalism
A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.

Timothy Ferriss LOW INFORMATION DIET from 4-Hour Workweek
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
—HERBERT SIMON, recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics- and the A.M. Turing Award, the “Nobel Prize of Computer Science”

The first step is to develop and maintain a low-information diet. Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.
Lifestyle design is based on massive action—output. Increased output necessitates decreased input.
Most information is:
1) time-consuming,
2) negative,
3) irrelevant to your goals, and
4) outside of your influence.
I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn’t at least two of the four.

Beautiful.

 

[Karlx]

Quitting social media is reddit tier self-help. There's nothing wrong with social media. It's literally 'talking to people.' That's what this site is. The problem with social media is a problem with the end-user. Sinple as.

 

[Mister]

Quitting social media is reddit tier self-help. There's nothing wrong with social media. It's literally 'talking to people.' That's what this site is. The problem with social media is a problem with the end-user. Sinple as.

Yeah nothing wrong with billion dollar tech firms making algorithms to manipulate its users to only see specific content, etc. Also no privacy concerns at all with these platforms huh?

And enough studies now showing how bad social media is.

 

[Blossom]

I dropped Facebook years ago.
I dropped Linked-In. Ended up getting a job thru Indeed.
I also discourage texting.

All of these require a constant care and feeding.
People got angry because I did not respond in their perceived timeframe.

Cal Newport books/interviews are excellent for support in making this choice:
Digital Minimalism
A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.

Timothy Ferriss LOW INFORMATION DIET from 4-Hour Workweek
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
—HERBERT SIMON, recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics- and the A.M. Turing Award, the “Nobel Prize of Computer Science”

The first step is to develop and maintain a low-information diet. Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.
Lifestyle design is based on massive action—output. Increased output necessitates decreased input.
Most information is:
1) time-consuming,
2) negative,
3) irrelevant to your goals, and
4) outside of your influence.
I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn’t at least two of the four.

Thanks! I practice minimalism in other aspects of my life so this appeals to me.

 

[yerrag]

Quitting social media is reddit tier self-help. There's nothing wrong with social media. It's literally 'talking to people.' That's what this site is. The problem with social media is a problem with the end-user. Sinple as.

Yes. It's as simple as-

Blaming The Victim.

 

[Makrosky]

Quitting social media is reddit tier self-help. There's nothing wrong with social media. It's literally 'talking to people.' That's what this site is. The problem with social media is a problem with the end-user. Sinple as.

In a way yes. In a way no: Is it the fault of the average citizen that authorities put fluoride in tap water? You can choose to not drink it but for sure you are not the bad actor, it is them in the first place.

And this is specially true for vulnerable people: kids and teenagers, who doesn't have a fully mature brain, personality, self confidence, a solid sense of healthy criticism, etc.

They are super vulnerable to the algorithms and the ways they have created those apps. And if the parents didn't teach them healthy models, then 2x vulnerable.

They are more vulnerable to any kind of propaganda as well. It is normal, they don't have their own criteria. Some minimal protective mechanisms are needed. Or would you allow your 13yr old kid to watch full blown hardcore porn?

One has to learn/teach how to use them properly. They are helpful if used correctly.

Still, things always change, those technologies are here to stay and it will go further. Best thing is to teach them good alternatives so they naturally drop the stupid imitations. If you teach your kids to enjoy nature in its pure beautiness and form, the stupid metaverse is not going to suck them in.

 

[Peatness]

View: https://twitter.com/SierraSmith84/status/1569767967428157443

 

[Karlx]

Yeah nothing wrong with billion dollar tech firms making algorithms to manipulate its users to only see specific content, etc. Also no privacy concerns at all with these platforms huh?

And not enough studies now showing how bad social media is.

Yes. It's as simple as-

Blaming The Victim.

This is all rhetoric that you absorbed from being online, the very leftoid views of the enforcers of the algorithm. My point has been proved.

They are super vulnerable to the algorithms and the ways they have created those apps. And if the parents didn't teach them healthy models, then 2x vulnerable.

Weak character is weak character. We already live in a highly complex, authoritarian-maternalistic bureaucracy based on scientific studies and thinking of the kids. What are the results? The focus in these types of matters should not lie in studies, jargon, and 'conversation,' but on identifying and removing bad actors from positions of influence. Get rid of the bad actors, demand leaders who will do so. We have this paradigm where people do wicked and capricious things, or consciously anti-national things, all under a sense of total protection of false free speech principles. Meanwhile people who say very self-evident things about reality are severely punished. Again, there's nothing wrong with talking to people online, and you can't stop it, and it would be immoral to try. So at the individual level, quitting isn't the optimal answer. After all that, parents raise their own kids.

@Makrosky

 

[Blaze]

All of these require a constant care and feeding.
People got angry because I did not respond in their perceived timeframe.

Couldn't agree more. We become a slave to responding to others in a timely manner in order not to offend them.

 

[Makrosky]

This is all rhetoric that you absorbed from being online, the very leftoid views of the enforcers of the algorithm. My point has been proved.




Weak character is weak character. We already live in a highly complex, authoritarian-maternalistic bureaucracy based on scientific studies and thinking of the kids. What are the results? The focus in these types of matters should not lie in studies, jargon, and 'conversation,' but on identifying and removing bad actors from positions of influence. Get rid of the bad actors, demand leaders who will do so. We have this paradigm where people do wicked and capricious things, or consciously anti-national things, all under a sense of total protection of false free speech principles. Meanwhile people who say very self-evident things about reality are severely punished. Again, there's nothing wrong with talking to people online, and you can't stop it, and it would be immoral to try. So at the individual level, quitting isn't the optimal answer. After all that, parents raise their own kids.

@Makrosky

wtf dude

We are not talking about "talking to people online". That would be a messaging app like whatsapp, not a social network like FB, IG or TT.

Plus if "talking to people online" means completrly random strangers on the internet, then no, I don't want my kids to do that.

 

[akgrrrl]

Just read the first sentence.
If you can.

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www.thegatewaypundit.com

 

[FocusedOnHealth]

I was just wondering how many people here have quit social media? I’m talking about the major ones like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc.
I’ve done it before and really prefer life without social media. Today I deleted my Instagram and Twitter and the last one I have left to deal with is Facebook.

I read this interesting write up by a guy who quit social media (shared by someone on social media ironically) and it really helped me face the fact that I truly don’t like it and there are multiple things about it that make me uncomfortable!

The 11th Reason to Delete your Social Media Account: the Algorithm will Find You

TL;DR: outrage mobs aren’t a bug. They’re a feature. After the introduction, there are five parts: the algorithm is real, the algorithm wants you online, the algorithm will find you, walk away from…

simondedeo.com

The last straw was getting two messages from men this week that I don’t even know! Seriously I don’t have the time or energy for that nonsense.

Please share if you’ve quit and your feelings about it!

I can’t say as I “quit” social media as I never did social media. I never saw the use for it. It’s good (IMO) that you quit it. The way I see it, society has been and is being trained to always be online 24/7 and part of the interNET. Eventually people will BE the net via the gene therapy protocols people are taking part of. It was designed that way. You will be the internet. Living in an artificial NET world. People live their lives thru the NET. Think Metaverse. The next step is “you are the internet” due to quantum entanglement. Personally, I use the internet for researching information. Now of course, they are controlling that too.

 

[Blossom]

I can’t say as I “quit” social media as I never did social media. I never saw the use for it. It’s good (IMO) that you quit it. The way I see it, society has been and is being trained to always be online 24/7 and part of the interNET. Eventually people will BE the net via the gene therapy protocols people are taking part of. It was designed that way. You will be the internet. Living in an artificial NET world. People live their lives thru the NET. Think Metaverse. The next step is “you are the internet” due to quantum entanglement. Personally, I use the internet for researching information. Now of course, they are controlling that too.

I love this! Thank you

 

[yerrag]

This is all rhetoric that you absorbed from being online, the very leftoid views of the enforcers of the algorithm. My point has been proved.

Branding people left or right speaks to your self-professed position of being centered while you only have a pair of blinders on.

I can't welcome you to the metaverse but you didn't need to. You needed us to swim and drown with you in this to share in your misery of company.

 

[JamesGatz]

To add on to everything that has been said:

I believe Social media/TV/etc is part of the ploy to keep people dumbed down and distracted

If they create a 24/7 cycle of always being distracted - the average Joe never has the time to research, learn, and experiment with what's really going on - he never wakes up and is "living in the motions" until he dies

Hence why I deleted ALL of my social media (including LinkedIn) and never felt better

NOT to mention: All these social media apps are filled with Normies who are totally blind/clueless to everything going on - hence its stressful to read through their opinions on the World

 

[FocusedOnHealth]

To add on to everything that has been said:

I believe Social media/TV/etc is part of the ploy to keep people dumbed down and distracted

If they create a 24/7 cycle of always being distracted - the average Joe never has the time to research, learn, and experiment with what's really going on - he never wakes up and is "living in the motions" until he dies

Hence why I deleted ALL of my social media (including LinkedIn) and never felt better

NOT to mention: All these social media apps are filled with Normies who are totally blind/clueless to everything going on - hence its stressful to read through their opinions on the World

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Yes of course it is. Social media is programming. Programming for the masses. That’s why they call tell-lie-vision content “programming”.

They want to program you to think and act a certain way. To accept a certain narrative. For your own good they tell us.

And now social media is an extension of the dumbed down tell-lie-vision programming.

Social media has done a fantastic job programming the masses who don’t think, who don’t want to think, to take poisonous, barely tested injections, into their bodies because they are told thru social media, that these poisonous injections are “safe and effective“. And can “protect them“. All their favorite celebrities and sports hero’s are getting themselves injected with these questionable substances (we are told) so you should too.

Do it to protect yourself and protect others. Be proud you took one for the team. LOL.

This is the real reason for social media. PROGRAMMING THE MASSES. To eat their poison. To drink their lies. To take the death shots.

The powers that be love when people eat up their disinformation and lies. They get off on it. They hate the masses. They count on their ignorance.

If the masses would simply take a step back, pull open the curtain and stop letting societal norms anesthetize them, like in the “They Live” film for example, then they might not be caught up in the downward spiral of delusion that has gripped the world. It’s a nice thought to think the masses can be reached, but sadly it’s unrealistic.

You are left with trying to reach the ones on the fence, somewhere in the middle. Who haven’t made up their minds yet.

Really though, it comes down to whether you love the truth, or you love the delusion.

 

[For Peat's Sake]

Haven't had social media in years and I don't miss the distraction personally. It does provide some value for some people, be that maintaining friendship, running a business, helping connect communities, raising awareness etc. There are many examples of how modern technology is being used for better or worse. We are currently appropriating a similar function as part of this forum it could be said. Each to their own. For me, the biggest benefit is not having a device in my hand/sight and putting my time to better use and time is priceless.

 

[joaquin]

I quit Facebook in 2015. Never was into Twitter. I have an instagram acct but that is just I'm bored all the time. I don't post I just keep it so I can see what Erika Jayne is up to.

 

[parallax]

I continue to use social media, but in some ways I have never really used it in the first place - and I use tools that give me more control over what I see.
I am very disengaged from my social accounts because I began them as ways to promote my business and have only used them that way, ever. So I'm really not engaged with the platforms very often or very deeply. However facebook is too toxic for even that level of semi-engagement, so for a number of years I have used "Friendly+" on my phone and a variety of browser extensions on my computer to be able to manipulate what I see on facebook. With Friendly+ I see no ads, and I have a massive blacklist of terms that will not be shown in my feed. This way when I do pop in to glance at my facebook all I see are messages from friends or clients, and posts about palm trees or orchids or the occasional skateboard video. No news, no condoleces, no complaining, no fearmongering, no politics, no gender reveal parties, etc.

I spend so little time on social media that I actually schedule it in so that I stay relatively available to my clients.