It’s Not Too Late to Quit Social Media

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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?

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

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