Quitting Social Media

Quitting Facebook has been one of the most positive experiences of my life. I still use Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter, but the mildly anonymous aspects of those platforms mean that I use them for what I want to use them for, not as an extension of my life.HN is social media too, lest you forget.

Quit social media, you'll feel better.

The reason I was able to quit essentially all social media (FB, Twitter, Insta) years ago was I realized, outside of my very small circle of friends (on Discord) and the thoughts of people on HN, I have no desire at all about what other random people are thinking. After that, it was easy to throw them away.

I killed FB in 2019 and Twitter in 2020.No regrets, I am a bit out of sync with the mainstream, but when the mainstream is all about the "outrage of the day", it might actually be a net positive.When it comes to social contacts, my life has reverted to the 1990s standard: if you don't meet somebody in meatspace, you slowly forget about that person existing. Not totally, but "out of sight, out of mind" works.

I get facebook and was a user (on and off as I almost annually deleted my account) but then I found it a massive waste of time so gave up entirely just after Christmas.I did join back up again for one specific facebook group. however I wasn't getting much out of it and on top of that, the Cambridge Analytica debacle just left a bad taste in my mouth and I've dropped facebook entirely, again.It's been about 3 months now and I really have no desire to sign up again - occasiona

By deleting my social media accounts. Used to have some accounts with Facebook, Twitter, etc for less than a month to see what the fuss is about and what 'I'm missing out on'.It turns out that there's nothing interesting other than the carnage that happens on there quite frankly. So yes, deleting both of them was a great move.

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 m

It's funny to read such articles hypothesising about Facebook being gone. I left Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn about 1 year ago. I was hardly getting any use out of it anyway; not even Messenger. I did a similar thing to Reddit. Quit it cold turkey. These days, I hang out on Mastodon and HN. As it turns out, I don't give a shit about what my extended family and old classmates are up to, and they don't really give a shit about my hobbies and political views. Staying in touch with

I have quit FB like 6 years ago and stopped using Twitter (I still have account I guess) like 2 years ago.It doesn't mean the web became a lonely place for me - Github, HN, some music apps, Instagram, Duo, e-mail etc. What I have left behind is pictures of newborns, awkard 'friends', news and shallow exchanges - which I am not fond of also in real.

With the glaring exception of LinkedIn(jobs only), I am social media free. No Facebook, no twitter, nada. I wish I could say that I had it figured out better than everyone else and give a compelling reason to not use facebook. All I can really say, is that I used to have both a facebook and twitter account that were pretty active, and I am much happier without them. YMMV, though, so do what works for you.