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My experience is that the too-talkative person is either discrediting more and more oneself ("leaving no doubt" about it) or it bores people away completely fro
by Juliate 7y ago
My experience is that the too-talkative person is either discrediting more and more oneself ("leaving no doubt" about it) or it bores people away completely from the subject/platform/conversation at hand.
It's like, at some point, you leave your noisy/opinionated uncle speak in his corner at the family gathering. You don't mind him anymore.
Facebook went that route to me: what started to show up more and more from family and friends bored me away more and more, to the point I left. I prefer to pay the price to have no noisy-news and lose some "relatives" to only get the meaningful stuff when it matters. Left 2 years ago. No regret.
Twitter went the same route, about the time when the platform gained more public interest around 2015. Removed from my phone. Barely checking it now.
I tried Instagram alternatively. It's a pure marketing platform. Vaguely interesting as a pinterest-like journal.
It gets me back to blogs. Things that take more time (to setup/write, but also to find and read), bear more fruit.
- dawg- 7y agoI have discovered that Facebook can be manageable only if you are extremely diligent about unfollowing people whose posts you don't care about. You can unfollow while still remaining "friends". I have been really good about it and there are now at most 15-20 people whose posts actually end up in my news feed. Sometimes nothing new will show up in my news feed for several days, which is really nice. I think joining good, high quality groups of a not-too-big size is also a way to make Facebook a valuable experience. I was 100% off of facebook for a long time and even though I denied it for a long time, my social life suffered for it. I now see it as a necessary evil that can be not so bad with some effort.