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I made a simple tool to help me break my bad social media habits: https://quit.social/ https://quit.social/ I uninstalled Twitter and Facebook from my phone, a
by ImJasonH 8y ago
I made a simple tool to help me break my bad social media habits: https://quit.social/ https://quit.social/
I uninstalled Twitter and Facebook from my phone, and replaced them on my home screen with Safari bookmarks that looked like those apps (using favicons).
Any time I would try to open those apps, it would deliver a "mild shock" in the form of a big red shame warning telling me how many times I've recently failed to stop using the apps.
I kicked the habit in about a week.
The fake Twitter app still sits on my home screen, but I only ever tap it by accident. As soon as I come up with something to put in its place, it'll be gone too.
Feel free to use it if you find it useful, it's pretty ugly but it worked for me. If it works for you, consider making it prettier: https://github.com/imjasonh/quit.social https://github.com/imjasonh/quit.social
- romwell 8y agoThe discussions on successfully quitting social media pop up weekly on HN. The irony is, of course, that HN is social media. Personally, I clock more time here than on FB and IG taken together.