America’s social-media addiction is getting worse

Re:America’s social-media addiction is getting worse by saiya-jin on Friday August 09, 2019 @10:10AM (#20654453)

I hate sophisticated approach to creating addiction in modern apps just like the next guy here, BUT... you know you can just uninstall the apps, right? You know you can set the phone on airplane mode when you come home, right? You know you can block FB or any other server on network level, right? Pause notifications from WhatsApp for a year... and so on and on and on.

Self-training in a bit of discipline is one of the most valuable things one can do with their life.

I've removed FB 2 years ago and couldn't be happier, the idea of being spammed with notifications like I was before is so alien now. I've paused notifications on noisy WhatsApp groups and go there maybe 1x a month. Removed most chat apps. Life is good. Try it.

I mean, if you want to drop nicotine addiction, you don't keep a 12-pack of cigarettes lying around, right?

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Re:America’s social-media addiction is getting worse by overthemoon on Friday August 09, 2019 @10:19AM (#20654554)

Speaking as someone who did quit smoking two years ago, of course you shouldn't keep a (20) pack around, but the difficulty in making the decisions that kill the addiction is the whole crux of addiction. Buying a pack of cigs is easy. So is downloading an app, as easy as deleting it, or throwing a pack in the garbage. Breaking an addiction is keeping the app deleted, it's not buying another pack, and that's the hard part.

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