[mirimir]

Very true. I mean, I have an iPhone for work. And a dumb cellphone for personal stuff. I do use social media with family and close friends, but that's from notebook and desktop. I don't mix social and work on the same devices, and I'd be out of work if I did.

However, I strive on such insecure channels to be very uninteresting. I restrict everything that's potentially controversial to channels that are more private and anonymous, using VPNs and Tor. I share about that stuff with nobody who knows who I am in meatspace. And vice versa.

So it's not that I'm "cut[ting] [my]self off from all of society". But I am revealing different aspects of myself to society through channels that would take considerable effort to link. That is, I compartmentalize.

I realize that I've gone to extremes. But for me, it's mainly become a hobby. Or rather, LARP. Still, anyone can start compartmentalizing. Just get a used low-end gaming machine, install Linux and VirtualBox, and learn to use VMs. Run a VPN client in the host, and learn enough iptables to lock it down. Run Linux VMs with other VPN clients, to get nested VPN chains. Run Whonix VMs to connect via Tor.