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I deleted my Facebook account years ago. I stayed with Instagram and Twitter, thinking I could just follow people in tech or other interesting people that would expose me to interesting news, etc, but I always found myself getting sucked back in to political news and other negativity. There is so much negativity on Twitter. It feels like the one-liners cause more contention because we can just make a quip about the other tribe - take that! - and receive quick praise from our tribe. I can sincerely say that not visiting Twitter or Instagram anymore makes me happier. I never gained much of value from it, at least not anything I can't find elsewhere.

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I never really got into Twitter or Instagram because I felt like they're both about advertising yourself to the world. Twitter with advertising your ideas and Instagram with your photos.

As for Facebook, I never deleted it since I use messenger all the time to plan things with friends and family. But I never visit Facebook the website. I just don't visit it.

You can deactivate your Facebook account and still use Messenger. Of course, if you're not logging into Facebook itself at all, I guess there's not much need to.

I tried to do the same in Twitter but you can never avoid the politics/anger. Even if you follow just subject experts, some of them will tweet things unrelated to their expertise, or retweet something political.

Yes, almost as if political issues affect everyone, you included. What a shame there aren’t more “apolitical” tech drones out there willing to go silently along with the status quo. Please, tell me more about fucking micro services or whatever.

Its getting harder to be online without facebook. I have no account, and the last few years I see more and more places requiring an account to get anywhere.

Mom and pop stores publish their opening hours on facebook, semi governemental entities requiring facebook to enter their site, etc...

The only social media I have is twitter. I have had it since 2014 but I have never tweeted anything.

I think I follow 15 people right now and for me it is perfect. I will sometimes try to add new people but the moment someone posts something political or if they pass a threshold for posting too much useless content I instantly block them. I also don't follow anyone I know personally and can just txt them.

For me, my twitter feed is a phenomenal resource and an absolutely life positive thing. The problem though is the whole platform would collapse if everyone used it as I use it.

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