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You dont quit an addiction, you replace it with something else. But social media is different. It's a reality show in which you re the unpaid actor, a replacea
by cblconfederate 5y ago
You dont quit an addiction, you replace it with something else.
But social media is different. It's a reality show in which you re the unpaid actor, a replaceable lab rat. If you feel that, living your whole life oblivious under a painted dome (like in the Truman Show) by getting rewarded with likes is an OK life, then maybe you should grow up. In the end, Truman chose to get out.
- commandlinefan 5y agoWe replaced TV with social media. I still believe this was progress.
- cblconfederate 5y agoMy view is that it's not. Especially with the advent of video in social media, and with so many people joining we ve regressed to the mean and below. FB & IG are basically a 24 hour reality show or 24 hour home videos, not quality programming. The news are now made from self-reported tweets without cross-checks. and clickbait videos are gradually increasing the noise in youtube, a paid platform. the world's biggest forums (reddit+twitter) are severely narrowminded. Maintaining a nuanced community requires dedicated effort and expenditure (like HN does). As always on the internet, after the initial panspermia came a period of severe winner-take-all consolidation into monoculture. I m not sure if it would be different in an alternate timeline where the ad money was going to media companies.
- ranguna 5y agoHmmmm.. I quite social media a few years ago, need to find out what I replaced it with. Maybe I replaced it with something that is not an addiction? Your phrase might sound nice but it's not necessarily true.
- corpo_punisho 5y ago> You dont quit an addiction, you replace it with something else Not true. Some things are habit forming, like cigarettes or really fun books or games. The same is true for social media. All addictions must start at some point.