Ask HN: Did you ever experienced a social networks break?

Posted by lnalx on Sunday December 16, 2018 @06:45AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I realize of we are bounded to social networks, keeping always up to date to the last Instagram/Twitter/Facebook post. Looking for more likes, subscribers.

Even at work, it's difficult to get ride of it and it's affecting productivity.

I'd to try a month-free of social network (or just few weeks) to see how is life without it, it should be better I think so !

Did you already have a break in your online presence ?

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Re:Ask HN: Did you ever experienced a social networks break? by z0mbie42 on Sunday December 16, 2018 @06:54AM (#18692731)

After measuring the (negative) impact of social networks on my productivity and how I interacted with them, I took radical steps to reduce their usage.

I do not believe that weeks long break are a good idea, but instead reduce their daily/weekly usage.

- reduce their accessibility to not machinaly open them. for e.g do not have the application on your mobile (+ a great win against data harvesting) - reduce the social networks number (I left Facebook because it didn't bring any value to me, but kept twitter)

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Re:Ask HN: Did you ever experienced a social networks break? by JoshCalbet on Sunday December 16, 2018 @04:10PM (#18695257)

You are either creating or consuming content at a given time. Yes I have long breaks (I haven't used facebook in 10 months or so) I realize the negative impact on how the algorithms are designed to keep away things that you "dislike" and makes you thing that "everyone" thinks like you (to keep you engaged right?), the internet bubble so to say. Don't let these things take away your time. Just remember, things like that will most probably be there for a long time (if not always) but your time, health, and learning capacity are fading away as the clock ticks

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