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My cheap self-enforced act to stop using Facebook for a month: Every time someone come up on your feed (which you watch constantly you crazy bastards), hide th
by coder4life 4y ago
My cheap self-enforced act to stop using Facebook for a month:
Every time someone come up on your feed (which you watch constantly you crazy bastards), hide them for 30 days. Eventually, within 5 days, barely anyone is going to be on your feed. You'll get to see that rarely seen message
"You are all caught up for now"
And thanks for writing this. It's been a year and I need another small break
- namaria 4y agoYou know, deleting your account is way more effective.
- pixelpoet 4y agoMy (probably useless 2c) opinion is that this something like "cheating", in the sense of conceding defeat and inability to deal with it, in a similar sense to the saying "if you hate something, you are defeated by it". The stronger way to deal with it is to work out a relationship with the medium that doesn't harm me, and leaves me access to it should that ever be useful someday. Otherwise you're only waiting for the next mega addictive thing (say, TikTok) to come round and facing the same problem all over. As someone with addiction problems (particularly of the computer variety) I know it's easier said than done, but I see shades of the "abstinence instead of safe sex" argument in there.
- nicbou 4y agoUnless you need the account for a reason or another.
- nicbou 4y agoI just unfollow people. It started like that then I realised that I didn't care about any of it. Now my feeds are blank. However I follow your approach for subreddits. Old Reddit lets you remove subreddits from /r/all. There's only HN and a heavily filtered Reddit left. I checked Reddit while logged out yesterday, and it's just awful. The purge is working. The only problem is when websites suggest content to fill the void.