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I went cold turkey and closed my fb account. Feeling a little bit of abstinence, but I think I'm replacing it with more activity here and instead of opening fb
by mrleinad 9y ago
I went cold turkey and closed my fb account. Feeling a little bit of abstinence, but I think I'm replacing it with more activity here and instead of opening fb on my phone, I open an ebook reader, so it's good so far.
- passivepinetree 9y agoI'd love to do that, but I'm sucked in by the social pull...too many of my friends use Groups and Messenger to organize, despite my pleas to the contrary. In a perfect world, I'd have only the functionality that those two provide, perhaps with some sort of static profile.
- sandov 9y agoMe too, but I still can't stop using WhatsApp, it's the most popular IM app in my country, and only a small percentage of my friends cares enough about their privacy and digital freedom to switch to an alternative.
- mrleinad 9y agoOh, I kept Whatsapp. It's not that I care about privacy or digital freedom, I assume those are lost by now. I care about the amount of time I spend on those platforms and the amount of garbage I consume on them. Whatsapp is just a messaging platform, not one that provides an information feed to consume. I kept twitter because it's short and limits the text I could post to someone about something, which also limits the desire to do so because a tweet is ironic, informative or sarcastic, but cannot ensue a good and lenghty discussion (though some people try that, I cannot bear to imagine doing so)
- kronos29296 9y agoCan't go without whatsapp. Though facebook is out. Never was very active. Heck, I am more on HN than on facebook, twitter combined.