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> This kind of media is social like cigarettes are a breathing apparatus Having quit Facebook and quit smoking in my life, I can say with 100% certainty that q

> This kind of media is social like cigarettes are a breathing apparatus Having quit Facebook and quit smoking in my life, I can say with 100% certainty that quitting social media is a lot easier.

api 3y ago
Sure but I do believe they are things of a similar nature.
eimrine 3y ago
> quitting social media is a lot easier I do not believe that anybody who keeps having a smartphone can really quit a social media. It is just impossible that the only beeps it does is from GSM/CDMA activity (calls and sms) and there is no even one Telegram group who use to send you some news. I used to mute all Telegram notifications and delete all Telegram groups and what happened is that some coolhackers used to add their spam groups (very similar to real group I was involved in) into my group list and everytime my smartphone has a connection to Telegram servers it just filled itself with some groups. Only abandoning smartphone with really clear signal to every single friend of mine that the only way to access me is phone for sound and email for text - did the job. I also quit smoking and that was way easier for me that quit using smartphone. At least nobody argues that I must to return to smoking.
- indymike 3y ago
  > I do not believe that anybody who keeps having a smartphone can really quit a social media. I just quit Facebook, not all social media. On my phone, I have three Telegram groups (one tracks the war, the other is my family, the other is my extended family), a Twitter account I look at every 3-4 days (and that may go away because Twitter just isn't interesting other than a few friends telling jokes), LinkedIn because my company sells software to recruiters and HR (and that's where they all are), and SMS. I run with notifications only on for emails for business from customers and employees, SMS and telegram from family.

> This kind of media is social like cigarettes are a breathing apparatus Having quit Facebook and quit smoking in my life, I can say with 100% certainty that quitting social media is a lot easier.

api 3y ago

Sure but I do believe they are things of a similar nature.

eimrine 3y ago

> quitting social media is a lot easier I do not believe that anybody who keeps having a smartphone can really quit a social media. It is just impossible that the only beeps it does is from GSM/CDMA activity (calls and sms) and there is no even one Telegram group who use to send you some news. I used to mute all Telegram notifications and delete all Telegram groups and what happened is that some coolhackers used to add their spam groups (very similar to real group I was involved in) into my group list and everytime my smartphone has a connection to Telegram servers it just filled itself with some groups. Only abandoning smartphone with really clear signal to every single friend of mine that the only way to access me is phone for sound and email for text - did the job. I also quit smoking and that was way easier for me that quit using smartphone. At least nobody argues that I must to return to smoking.

indymike 3y ago
> I do not believe that anybody who keeps having a smartphone can really quit a social media. I just quit Facebook, not all social media. On my phone, I have three Telegram groups (one tracks the war, the other is my family, the other is my extended family), a Twitter account I look at every 3-4 days (and that may go away because Twitter just isn't interesting other than a few friends telling jokes), LinkedIn because my company sells software to recruiters and HR (and that's where they all are), and SMS. I run with notifications only on for emails for business from customers and employees, SMS and telegram from family.