how hard is it to quit social media?

[CD Boogie]

I just quit social media a week and a half ago. Closed Facebook, shuttered twitter and instagram. Miss it to a degree, twitter especially, as a news source. But the election really burned me out and I got tired of people's posts on both sides on Facebook. Wondering what effect if any it will have. I know it will. Like two years ago a friends brother in law committed suicide and I was in a social media timeout and damn near missed the funeral. It's how people communicate damn near everything nowadays but that's part of what annoys me.

And then there's the time suck. My gf thinks I'll go back. Ran into a friend and he thought i defriended him bc he tried to tag me for an NFL post and I was gone. I wasn't gonna be one of those People who announced their departures as if begging people to say no, please stay! Wanking motion.

Still, interested to know how people have fared stepping away and what effects it has. I don't work in media anymore, though I do freelance, so they might impact my return bc editors don't like people who can't or won't **** the share football. We will see. Now that football season is basically over, I'm in a fallow period anyway.

Thoughts?

 

[StaggerLee]

Since I quit my job (as sports editor), I haven't spent any time on Twitter at all. I haven't totally deleted it, but I don't check it hourly like I did when I was working. I really only open it up when I get an alert or something. And even then, I've gone a couple of days with active alerts without opening.

I can't give up Facebook. I swore around election time that I would, but it's my line of communication with my family members back home and my friends. I also use it for my side hustle, and probably 90% of my business comes from that Facebook page.

I don't miss Twitter honestly. And I wish I could quit Facebook. What I've found, though, is that I've unfriended/unfollowed enough people to make my timeline a little more tolerable. But now it's starting to swing in the opposite direction (politically), which is just as annoying.

 

[cisforkoke]

Thoughts?

I needed some of those fruit-filled Archway cookies today. But they were not at the location I tried.

 

[Songbird]

Who the hell eats fruit-filled cookies?

 

[Jake_Taylor]

I like the girl scout ones with the jam in the middle.

 

[Songbird]

Fruit-filled cookie? Go eat a hamentashen.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

How do we classify oatmeal raisin?

 

[Songbird]

As a waste of raisins.

 

[SnarkShark]

Who the hell eats fruit-filled cookies?

Heathens.

 

[SnarkShark]

How do we classify oatmeal raisin?

Abomination.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

At least nobody has mentioned Newtons, which are wonderful, but not a cookie. They're fruit and cake.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I'm not on Twitter or any of the other sites - just Facebook. And even that I'm actually "on" once a week or so. I deactivated my account over the summer. Came back about three months ago but am ready to leave again.

It's so predictable that I could recite my "newsfeed" before I read it and still get it 95 percent right.

 

[cranberry]

I just quit social media a week and a half ago. Closed Facebook, shuttered twitter and instagram. Miss it to a degree, twitter especially, as a news source. But the election really burned me out and I got tired of people's posts on both sides on Facebook. Wondering what effect if any it will have. I know it will. Like two years ago a friends brother in law committed suicide and I was in a social media timeout and damn near missed the funeral. It's how people communicate damn near everything nowadays but that's part of what annoys me.

And then there's the time suck. My gf thinks I'll go back. Ran into a friend and he thought i defriended him bc he tried to tag me for an NFL post and I was gone. I wasn't gonna be one of those People who announced their departures as if begging people to say no, please stay! Wanking motion.

Still, interested to know how people have fared stepping away and what effects it has. I don't work in media anymore, though I do freelance, so they might impact my return bc editors don't like people who can't or won't **** the share football. We will see. Now that football season is basically over, I'm in a fallow period anyway.

Thoughts?

Aren't message boards like this a form of social media? Maybe you're defeating the purpose by starting a thread about it?

 

[Vombatus]

Is that irony?

 

[Jake_Taylor]

A little too ironic, don't you think?

 

[cisforkoke]

I'm not on Twitter or any of the other sites - just Facebook. And even that I'm actually "on" once a week or so. I deactivated my account over the summer. Came back about three months ago but am ready to leave again.

It's so predictable that I could recite my "newsfeed" before I read it and still get it 95 percent right.

This can be fixed, though. First, find a great Facebook page. I will provide an example:

Archway Cookies | Facebook

Then find the people giving out 1-star reviews and call them buttholes.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I have too many friends who I only contact through Facebook to give it up. I've pruned the hell out of the number of people I actually follow, though. Since the election it's gotten insane.

 

[Starman]

I eradicated everything political off my FB wall in August or September. Unfollowed all the groups, unfriended everybody overtly political. Posted on all my relatives' walls that I no longer intended to read or respond to anything political, of any stripe.

It's mostly worked. It cut down the traffic volume about 90%, but the aggravation factor is way down too.

In the end nobody will care. When the bombs drop.

 

[CD Boogie]

I needed some of those fruit-filled Archway cookies today. But they were not at the location I tried.

Stay hot

 

[CD Boogie]

Aren't message boards like this a form of social media? Maybe you're defeating the purpose by starting a thread about it?

Really? You're anonymous on your Facebook account? I was actually going to intially add that the reason i appreciate this board is that I'm more genuine here than Facebook or elsewhere