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I've become convinced all social media is detrimental to mental health. I've stopped using any of it and am feeling a lot better, with no real downsides. My Twi

by ebbv 9y ago

I've become convinced all social media is detrimental to mental health. I've stopped using any of it and am feeling a lot better, with no real downsides. My Twitter account is the only one I haven't deleted yet only because I have a four letter username on there which you can't get anymore, but I think I will probably delete it anyway soon.

louhike 9y ago
But don't you consider HN as social media?
- ebbv 9y ago
  Nope. It's just a specialized news feed. I don't make friends on here or really even talk to people most of the time. I only read informative comments, I rarely even note people's usernames.
  - monk_e_boy 9y ago
    > I only read informative comments Um. How do you know that they are informative before you've read them?
    - deleted 9y ago
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    - ebbv 9y ago
      HN has a cool system where comments get up-voted if they are good or down-voted if they are bad. That really makes it easy to sort the good ones from the bad ones.
  - sosuke 9y ago
    I think it is because HN does not have "features" like being able to follow other users. I'm thankful of this I don't get Twitter like emails saying "ebbv" liked a post on HN!
grillvogel 9y ago
you are literally participating in social media right now by reading and writing these comments