Re:The Joy of Missing Out
by driverdan on Sunday July 15, 2018 @10:13PM
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Why would you need to quit? Like all social media you can unfollow people. Follow what interests you. If someone gives you FOMO unfollow.
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Re:The Joy of Missing Out
by BadassFractal on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:55AM
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That's a good point too. I have a personal account now with maybe 40 friends where I immediately unfollow anybody who's constantly signaling a fake lifestyle through their stories. Out of sight, out of mind. Works really well.
For the same reason an alcoholic shouldn't try to moderate their drinking.
Where's the proof of that? I've known people who at some point would have met the diagnostic criteria for alcoholism, and yet managed to moderate their drinking on their own without quitting or going to AA or anything like that. Obviously that doesn't work for everyone but I wouldn't glibly dismiss the possibility.
I suspect (and science is starting to suggest) that addiction is more of a spectrum than a binary and my comment is really just about the people toward the far ends of those spectrums.
The fact that your friends could moderate, while there plainly exist the graves of those who couldn't, also supports this view.