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I completely agree with you on almost all points (I don't have a social media account either for the exact reasons you mentioned; dropped all of them like a hot
by olcor 6y ago
I completely agree with you on almost all points (I don't have a social media account either for the exact reasons you mentioned; dropped all of them like a hot potato when I read some of those social media experiment papers) except for this:
> I’m gonna stop reading the news, it’s too much stress for me.
This I feel is actively dangerous. You _need_ to know what is going on out there. While I agree that most of the news counts as opinion (and is marked as such sometimes), you need to develop a skill which parses through the fluff and take just the facts into account. This might not be easy, but it is worth it.
- iliekcomputers 6y agoI'm not that good at articulating why I think a lot of what's news these days seems mostly irrelevant to me, but I was very influenced by Aaron Swartz's blog post [0] about how reading the news is a waste of time very often. [0]: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
- polishdude20 6y agoNah, me reading the news is part of a two way transaction. If I have a "duty" to be informed by reading the news, the news had a "duty" to be high quality and not be in the current state it is now. Most of the news anyways is of things happening on the other side of the world which I can't influence or change. I think if people focused more on their local issues and tried to fix their local communities, that would be much more productive.