Dave Eggers made me quit Twitter for a week

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21 points·prostoalex··8 comments

Eh. My own procrastination and the horrible ad hominem in the local political discussions on my feed got me off Facebook for over 2 months, and on minimal Twitter (use it for work-related stuff). Definitely at least a smidgen more newsworthy than quitting Twitter for a week.

AMA about my great sacrifice

The NY Times had an excellent excerpt of "The Circle", Dave Egger's book, called "We Like You So Much and Want To Know You Better":

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/magazine/dave-eggers-ficti...

The HN discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6461893

Quit = didn't log on for a week

::gasp::

Risible!

She quit for 1 week and this made a popular publication? I've read at least a dozen instances of people quitting for longer here on HN and personally quit for 1 month before eventually deleting my account.

Michele Filgate made me quit reading Salon forever.

That's sort of senselessly hateful. Anything in particular you didn't like about the article?

It's super low on content and void of anything all that interesting. It's like Salon is capitalizing on this book being published to get some hits. It's not the worst I've seen of this but it's not worth the click.

Salon is usually known for doing better than that, but I guess they have to make the easy money where they can.

Rename "quit" to "stop using" so that no more poor souls click on this garbage.

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