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I stopped using Facebook a year ago. Deleted the user. I created a fresh one to be able to follow my kids in daycare which can't be used for much else because I don't want to add more than one friend. This is priceless. I'm not allowed to browse more FB unless I add more friends. This is kind of asshole behaviour. What if I don't have more than one friend? Fuck you Facebook.

I disabled all kinds of popups and notifications. I still use Jodel which is fun and anonymous (as much as anything these days).

I get mad when reading LinkedIn so I only go there once a week or so. There is nothing noteworthy on linkedin.

I use Reddit for news only - private subreddit.

I guess that forums are the only kind of interaction that interests me.

I just wanted to say that cutting the connection to social media doesn't have to be 100%. Being selective is enough for me.

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Your LI must be very different from my LI :) I see endless self promotion, but nothing that makes me mad. More like bored, so I rarely go to LI except to accept the odd connection request from someone I met IRL.

Everything else is spot on though. I go days without looking at my fairly selective twitter or reddit. HN is probably the only thing I check daily, but if I'm busy I might not even do that.

The point is use the tools and don't let them use you. Social media, smart phones, etc... are what you make of them.

For some reason I get angry when reading LI. Self promotion got worse last year. People now post that they are going to change job a couple of days before job change. I don't understand why.

The job offers are crap. I'm not going to move to Switzerland or Germany for 3 months gig and I don't want to work for Uber. I stopped responding to recruiters as they don't understand that I really don't want to do Java for some crappy bank. I would rather starve.

End rant.

HN is great. People are usually nice and often I learn something new about a topic that I didn't know.

I found a script that allowed me to unsubscribe from everyone. I also added some uBlock rules. My LinkedIn feed is literally empty.

Like the other person who replied, LinkedIn made me angry, but I still returned to it when I ran out of things to check. Now there's nothing there to check.

It worked so well that I did the same with Facebook.

>> I created a fresh one to be able to follow my kids in daycare...

What does this mean?

English is obviously not my first language. :)

My boy is in a private day care (Danish: dagpleje) - they have a private FB group where they post pictures for their parents to see most of the days.

I think your English was fine, I just couldn’t think of reasons a day care might require Facebook. Groups makes sense.

In the US, they'd have to have the parents sign media releases to do this. Seems like a lot of effort to maintain such a group.

Wouldn't they make you sign media release at the point when you sign up for daycare, along with a bunch of other papers you already have to sign? Seems rather easy if that's the case and not that you have to sign off on every single picture uploaded.

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