Very happy not knowing what you're missing actuallyand then happily miss out on everything else.
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Very happy not knowing what you're missing actuallyand then happily miss out on everything else.
Beautiful.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.
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?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.
Thanks! I practice minimalism in other aspects of my life so this appeals to me.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.
Yes. It's as simple as-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.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 not enough studies now showing how bad social media is.
Yes. It's as simple as-
Blaming The Victim.
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.
Couldn't agree more. We become a slave to responding to others in a timely manner in order not to offend them.All of these require a constant care and feeding.
People got angry because I did not respond in their perceived timeframe.
wtf dudeThis 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
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 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 love this! Thank youI 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.
Branding people left or right speaks to your self-professed position of being centered while you only have a pair of blinders on.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.
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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