I could joke that not having social media in my life has made more time for my HN addiction, but I really like not knowing most of you. Benefits of no social me

I could joke that not having social media in my life has made more time for my HN addiction, but I really like not knowing most of you. Benefits of no social media engagement include: - All of my personal relationships have normal adult boundaries based on what we bring to it today, and don't operate on precedents set when we were in middle school. - Freedom from the awareness of people talking about me and the urge to influence that conversation. - I can try things and really suck terribly at them until I'm good enough that I don't anymore, and do them for the pleasure of doing them instead of whether they get me approval and likes. - I'm a refreshing person to be around because the perceived problems of the world seem alien and silly in my environment. - I can engage deeply with complex ideas and problems without being assigned to a "side." The downsides are things like when I have an idea for a product or do something creative, I absolutely lack a channel to put it into to get fast feedback and refine it. It can be a chore for people to "explain" you in business contexts when you don't have a bunch of pictures of your food they can just look up and confirm that you, too, are the sort of person who takes pictures of their food, which creates risk you can't be trusted to just get it that people take pictures of their food now, or you don't value the same things they do. I literally eat 3x+ a day, so it's not like an exotic holiday for me, though I guess with the internet being global, that's not true for everyone, so I can see why they take the pictures. Having to explain why I don't take pictures of it is social friction like being vegan 20 years ago. Anyway, it's a balance, and there are good reasons to stay on it, and sacrifices if you leave it. It's just a disequilibrium right now.