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I've been off facebook and twitter for a year. I stopped watching and reading news sites for the past two weeks. It has been absolute bliss. You can bemoan that
by carrja99 8y ago
I've been off facebook and twitter for a year. I stopped watching and reading news sites for the past two weeks. It has been absolute bliss. You can bemoan that I'm not "woke" but I can be active in my community and contribute to causes I support without hearing a certain someone's name every damn day.
Hacker News might be next. :-)
- zaphod12 8y agoI hear ya! At first after getting off of Facebook, I substituted Reddit, which was WAY worse. Hacker News is the closest I get to a Social Network, now. The problem I have is that there is some news that I really do want. Especially local news and some international news, but I feel like I have no way to get it without the constant drone of soul crushingness
- frosted-flakes 8y agoDoes your city have a local newspaper? Until it was shut down in 2017, I loved reading my small city newspaper over breakfast. Mostly everything was relevant, and there was a lot more focus on positive things. Physical newspapers seem old fashioned, but it was a much better experience than online, and it was easier to say, "I'm done reading the news" and put it down. I didn't really read online news, because if there was anything really important, it would be in the National News page of the local paper. We paid a couple hundred dollars a year for 5 days a week delivery, which was totally worth it in my opinion.
- carrja99 8y agoYeah reddit was my substitute for awhile and as you said it was way worse. Glad to be rid of it
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