I'm down to FB, IG and YouTube, all of which I peek at for about 5 minutes a day, and even that is becoming too much. The constant IN YOUR FACE TO BE ANNOYING AS SHIT ALL THE ADS is insane.
Great overview. I think X is the frontrunner for making TEA a reality, although I do hope they fail. I've read multiple Substackers calling for a digital fast to be put in place, I think it's a matter of getting people organized a smidgen and making it seem cool.
I've never had social media apps on my phone; I knew it was a slippery slope. I did have FB briefly in an open source wrapper app but it stopped working and I didn't bother to fix it. I have Telegram but with notifications turned off. I think one way towards deleting them would be turning off the notifications first, which lessens the dependence, then they can be deleted.
Make no mistake all of them are meant to addict you, and it's working, which is why so many people now have 'ADHD' (alongside the genuine sufferers).
I used to worry about this, but at some point in the last year, I just realized that I mostly ignore these apps. I voted with the majority--I don’t want to delete them--but really, they’re just off on the side, something I visit once in a while. So I just don’t care enough to delete them, even if I don’t like how manipulative the big apps are. I sure hope Substack doesn’t keep trying to do more and more and more: I just want to read people with distinctive and interesting approaches to the world. Like you.
I've deleted them all except Instagram. Reddit was the latest. I will pop in to look at my regional sub on occasion but I no longer scroll, or post at all. Twitter was easy to leave, Facebook was too. I returned to FB to join a few groups and I don't friend anyone, even family. I refuse to use their marketplace and still use craigslist and eBay instead.
I didn't have time to read this, but I got sucked in and found your brief histories of these apps quite fascinating. And scary. Now maybe I WILL get off some of them this year. Unfortunately, I might have to with TikTok, because my state recently made it illegal!
It has just dawned on me that the American federal government has also done a TEA operation on its citizens... Perhaps this is simply what every large entity wants.
I'm down to FB, IG and YouTube, all of which I peek at for about 5 minutes a day, and even that is becoming too much. The constant IN YOUR FACE TO BE ANNOYING AS SHIT ALL THE ADS is insane.
Great overview. I think X is the frontrunner for making TEA a reality, although I do hope they fail. I've read multiple Substackers calling for a digital fast to be put in place, I think it's a matter of getting people organized a smidgen and making it seem cool.
I've never had social media apps on my phone; I knew it was a slippery slope. I did have FB briefly in an open source wrapper app but it stopped working and I didn't bother to fix it. I have Telegram but with notifications turned off. I think one way towards deleting them would be turning off the notifications first, which lessens the dependence, then they can be deleted.
Make no mistake all of them are meant to addict you, and it's working, which is why so many people now have 'ADHD' (alongside the genuine sufferers).
TikTok is arguably the worst and the most blatantly based on casino psychology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxJ6XlUfauM
I used to worry about this, but at some point in the last year, I just realized that I mostly ignore these apps. I voted with the majority--I don’t want to delete them--but really, they’re just off on the side, something I visit once in a while. So I just don’t care enough to delete them, even if I don’t like how manipulative the big apps are. I sure hope Substack doesn’t keep trying to do more and more and more: I just want to read people with distinctive and interesting approaches to the world. Like you.
I've deleted them all except Instagram. Reddit was the latest. I will pop in to look at my regional sub on occasion but I no longer scroll, or post at all. Twitter was easy to leave, Facebook was too. I returned to FB to join a few groups and I don't friend anyone, even family. I refuse to use their marketplace and still use craigslist and eBay instead.
I didn't have time to read this, but I got sucked in and found your brief histories of these apps quite fascinating. And scary. Now maybe I WILL get off some of them this year. Unfortunately, I might have to with TikTok, because my state recently made it illegal!
It has just dawned on me that the American federal government has also done a TEA operation on its citizens... Perhaps this is simply what every large entity wants.