Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by wGeF7H8Z59y985y 2171 days ago
Having quit social media years ago, I’ve accomplished the same exact thing but on a permanent basis. I highly recommend it. Silence truly is golden.
3 comments

I've been off Twitter and Facebook for years, but I'm still stuck on HN and Reddit. I'm weening myself off of both of these, but god damn is it hard. Social media really clogs up my brain.
I'm planning on deleting the contents of my profiles across Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit and Instagram and suspending future posts on August 1st. (I tend to pin things to dates like that.)

The Twitter fiasco has me thinking I should move that date up, honestly. My DMs aren't TMZ fodder but I'd still be embarrassed if they were leaked and ended up on some dark web dump somewhere, and that is now a nonzero possibility.

Staying on social media these days is becoming a liability, even if you lock down your profile completely and stay private. For me, it's no longer worth it.

I don't fuck around with scrolling-based social media after leaving Facebook.

I will regularly do a bit of Hacker News and a bit of Reddit but that's it for me.