> I still have no strength to quit it by myself.
This sounds like addiction?
Just delete the app from your phone and move on?
You'd be surprised by perfectly fine life goes on without Twitter / Facebook / TikTok / Instagram.
This sounds like addiction?
Just delete the app from your phone and move on?
You'd be surprised by perfectly fine life goes on without Twitter / Facebook / TikTok / Instagram.
We can get technical - drugs and booze are psychoactive, while social media is behavioral addiction. Even so, the habit-building loop and the compulsion that stems from it is effectively the same.
So, I don't think it's condescending to say "just quit it". I suspend my Twitter account from time to time when I realize I built a habit loop again, and the "urge" just goes away.
If you delete your facebook and twitter accounts you lose access to the only customer support channel in many places. If you delete faceboom you lose access to local second hand markets, you lose access to information about community events, you cannot participate in group chats, you get harangued at every social event if you try to share another contact channel.
Its very similar to not being a blue bubble in some regards, but Facebook has a much broader scope than just being a messenger platform.
Excited for the EU to fix the closed messenger issue, then I can have 3rd party clients to bridge all my communications securely into one unified view, just gotta make sure that these large companies don't try and open up these platforms by hiding your end to end encryption keys on their servers :D
Is this a Freudian slip? I'll have to start using this term when referring to Facebook in the future.
Interestingly enough, friends started calling again. Quitting social media cold turkey is great because you get to find out who is actually important in your life, and you find it out really fast.