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I’ve seen tidbits here and there of research on how social media and phone culture makes us unhappy. Stuff like Instagram use makes you happier up until around the 20minutes / day mark at which point it makes you really unhappy. I’ve also heard that setting your phone to greyscale helps reduce the gamification of phones so that you don’t think about it all the time (I’ve noticed that the giant red notifications for app icons are a huge part of this). I’ve already trimmed my Twitter and greatly reduced my Facebook. At this point I use my Facebook as an event calendar and electronic Rolodex. I think I’m going to delete all social media apps from my phone. I’ve also started plugging my phone charger into a socket far from my bed, so I have to get up for the morning alarm and can’t mindlessly surf the web before bedtime. Any goons have experiences cutting social media? How do I scrub my media presence? Like if I said a bunch of poo poo about Jeff Bezos, future capitalist king of mankind, how do I scrub that? I want the bare minimum and most anonymous email... just for poo poo that needs email like my medical care. TLDR: tell me how to purge my presence from the internet, tell me if you’ve stopped using social media and how it’s made you feel, tell me how you’ve kept up on events / contact info if you have left stuff like Facebook, and tell me how to make my online presence as anonymous as possible Also feel free to post pictures of animal odd couple friends 
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I went on a school camp with my kids to the middle of nowhere. There was no reception at all for 4 days. For the first day it felt God drat weird to not have a phone on me constantly. After that I got used to it and remembered what it was like in the early 90s before i had all this stuff. They were the best 3 nights sleep I've had in a long drat time. Probably compounded by the fact I live on a university campus in the middle of my city.
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Nov 19, 2018 10:11
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Buy yourself a dumb cell phone they are really cheap these days, give away all your smart devices. when you are limited in internet time on a desktop you'll spend it better, hopefully.
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Nov 19, 2018 14:06
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504 posted:I went on a school camp with my kids to the middle of nowhere. There was no reception at all for 4 days. For the first day it felt God drat weird to not have a phone on me constantly. After that I got used to it and remembered what it was like in the early 90s before i had all this stuff. They were the best 3 nights sleep I've had in a long drat time. Probably compounded by the fact I live on a university campus in the middle of my city. Do you let your kids have Instagram accounts? If so, at what age?
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Nov 20, 2018 00:33
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Facebook free for about a year over here. Getting into the habit of reading social media feeds for more than an hour a day is poison, and it is truly mental degeneracy even compared to surfing other places on the web as far as I am concerned. As a fellow Rusty Shackleford I now kind of appreciate the privacy that I wasn't giving myself at some points, and it's way easier to focus on studying, real hobbies, and being healthy. Considering all of the scandals that have been going on throughout 2018, now is a solid time to at least dump Facebook. I still follow links from other places to Facebook, but the average account feed is almost entirely random pictures of people you sort of know, small talk, low to medium quality memes, clickbait news articles, and emotionally-centered political posts. As far as scrambling your previous presence, there are ways to "poison" your data to some degree. Here's the best article that I have seen on how to do so, and everything in here should still work: https://www.shift8web.ca/2018/03/delete-facebook-how-to-poison-obfuscate-and-purge-your-facebook-data-before-deleting-your-account/ Moving onto the point where you don't spend more time reading a linked article from FB, Instagram, Twitter, etc. than you would a linked article to a random news site is a good balance imo, but not visiting social media domains at all for a few months is what got me completely disinterested in considering all of that bs as a "hobby".
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Nov 20, 2018 03:36
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No social media presence kicks rear end. Social media is all designed to make you as pissed off and insecure as possible. My mood and my attention span improved when I deleted everything. I'm ok with restricting myself to these dead gay forums.
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Nov 22, 2018 19:08
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Big Dick Cheney posted:No social media presence kicks rear end. Social media is all designed to make you as pissed off and insecure as possible. My mood and my attention span improved when I deleted everything. I'm ok with restricting myself to these dead gay forums. I've never had a Facebook account, or Gmail - but they still keep annoying me - want to sign up for an email? "Do it through Facebook or Gmail!" I check the news and weather on my phone in the morning, see what emails I have, then in and out of the shower, get dressed and I'm out the door. Forgot the "get dressed" bit once or twice, but my neighbour is very understanding. Then when I get home, I read forums and also on this dead gay one - then it's time for bed because I've done too much and have to get up at 5am. Social media is just shite, and a great way to leave a trail of anything you have done. I don't want my employer to know anything about me except what I tell him.
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Nov 22, 2018 23:21
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Big Dick Cheney posted:No social media presence kicks rear end. Social media is all designed to make you as pissed off and insecure as possible. My mood and my attention span improved when I deleted everything. I'm ok with restricting myself to these dead gay forums. I’m glad you are experiencing improved mental health my friend. I look forward to deleting my stuff as soon as I figure out how to burn all traces of my stuff. Or at least as much as is possible. Also I got to setup a VPN
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Nov 27, 2018 01:27
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:Do you let your kids have Instagram accounts? If so, at what age? They are nearly 13 and use Google hangouts, growing up they had no exposure to Instagram, mainly due to the fact their mother and I both could not see the point. Lets be honest, no one is really interested in someone else's 50 billion photos of their bog standard life.
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Nov 27, 2018 11:01
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You might wanna start with getting rid of this thread for starters... That, and cut back on the internet porn by like...A LOT!
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Getting rid of social media was life changing for me in a few subtle, yet profound ways. It took me a few times, I fell back into Facebook via work/industry contacts a couple of times over a 2 year period, and some casual flirting. But each time I quickly would delete the app, then delete the account after a week or so. For the past several years I've had just one Instagram account that strictly follows the accounts of a dozen or so zoo and wildlife charities I interact with for part of work. That's it, and I don't browse it even on a casual/regular basis. First, the actual time saved that you'd otherwise be using the app/combo of apps/etc. Second, and in my opinion even more significant is the mental and emotional energy you begin to regain the longer you abstain from social media. I guess anything beyond those two main factors depends largely on the individual (i.e. results may vary). But on the whole at least for myself, I think I'm noticeably more creative and proactive about pursuing my ideas and opinions, and I spend a significant amount of the time I used to spend casually cycling Facebook now reading either fiction/sci-fi or something educational in some way, all things that I think have led to feeling more content. I'm also much less distracted and more present in my personal relationships. And I value things like actually listening to music consciously and appreciating different qualities as opposed to more passively while semi distracted. Overall, I think the negatives outweigh the positives of heavy social media use. After all, a lot of these platforms are specifically designed with something other than the user's wellbeing as the priority. And they generate profits and wealth in a way that's relatively new in pace and scale in our economy, in addition to being a hugely impactful and effective vehicle for directly marketing pretty much anything to vulnerable demographics. I mean I get it, social media is a really cool concept and has led to some really neat innovations and all kinds of good stuff I'm sure someone here can explain more eloquently than I can, but at least in my own personal life, at least at this point, I'm noticeably happier without it.
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Dec 8, 2018 05:30
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^How do you keep track of people without Facebook? Keep an updated list of contacts in your gmail? Yeah I think decreasing the amount of porn is also a good idea. I’ve been doing that kind of innately just because I have a girlfriend and she’s fine as hell. Gonna make a concentrated effort to avoid it all together.
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Dec 10, 2018 01:59
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Just not having the app around goes a long way in my experience. Dealing with mobile browser interfaces is obnoxious enough that I've never really been sucked in.
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Dec 10, 2018 16:33
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:^How do you keep track of people without Facebook? contacts in my phone. I just text them. some of them are on gchat, some arent
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Dec 10, 2018 18:50
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:^How do you keep track of people without Facebook? Keep an updated list of contacts in your gmail? Facebook Messenger allows you to add people without using facebook itself, even if you only singed up for it with a phone number. Of course there's the whole "ghost" profiles thing that was in the media but that's up to you to weigh up.
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Dec 11, 2018 07:44
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Social media has been deleted. Feels good.
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Feb 19, 2019 08:25
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:Social media has been deleted. Feels good. Doesn't use social media yet still posts on social forums. I am very smart.
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Feb 20, 2019 01:10
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Something awful is good. Except you, you are a piece of poop
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Feb 20, 2019 01:32
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There's just no way to recover from a burn like that. Ouch.
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Mar 1, 2019 21:50
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I have to make Facebook ads for work and gently caress man is it hard to not scroll down on Facebook all day when the poo poo I’m posting about and following is stuff I do not care at all about outside of work. Even harder to break that habit at home.
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Mar 3, 2019 16:15
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I thanfully dont have much, but need to get off the phone. Most likely getting a dumb phone soon. Thankfully I never had facebook or instagram. This dead gay forum should come back to life. At least a paywall makes it semi private.
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Mar 3, 2019 22:55
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Getting rid of social media was life changing for me. I started with Facebook, then deleted Instagram. Those were the only 2 I ever used on any sort of regular basis. At first I felt uncomfortably “disconnected” and like I was missing out on what was going on, as pathetic as that sounds typing out. It was a definite adjustment losing “contact” with a lot of people as well. On the flipside of that though, I also have long running, deep text conversations with people I actually have real, meaningful friendships with that require effort and investment on my part. Where we actually do poo poo together and enrich each others’ lives and enjoy things like mutual interests and hobbies. It’s pretty staggering some of the other changes that can come about as a result too. It strengthened my marriage substantially just by the fact I’m infinitely more present without the nagging compulsion to check my feed. I kind of equate it to back when I used to smoke and would crave a cig at work. I also read a *lot* more actual books, instead of bullshit articles and redundant white noise. I also actually stuck with working out and hiking too. Then just the poo poo everyone mentions like attention span, calmness, focus, not feeing depressed, etc etc. Unrelatedly I mostly cut out drinking a couple years later, and between ditching social media and 98% of the alcohol consumption I participated in back in my 20s-early 30s, it’s loving SHOCKING how much time it feels like there is in a day.
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Feb 22, 2020 08:32
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anyone figure out how to get rid of social media while also still making a living as an independent musician (especially one who isn't already famous before getting rid of the social media)
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I dont use instagram facebook or Twitter. That said, I barely use facebook, just cuz not all of my friends are on chat servers. Mostly sa and started to get back into newgrounds. Might be too soon to say. So long as it's not a cesspit it's better for the brain than mass reposts .
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Whoa, wait a a minute, you still use new grounds as a social media platform? I didn't even know new grounds even had a social media component! Jesus, how old are you, man!?
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