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What makes the real difference is curating followers and avoiding mindless "reel type" scrolling. As always, it's being intentional rather than setting hard limits (e.g., being friends only in real life, limiting the number of follows after some weak sociological studies) that makes the difference in the quality of the experience.

I've learned a lot from Tiktok, Reddit, Twitter, certain corners of Facebook, etc., and met a lot of interesting people on dating apps. And I hope people have learned from me. Sure, I've wasted time too, and waited too long before I muted people who made me angry, and it took me some unnecessary time before I realized they weren't talking to me, but my world has gotten a lot bigger and more interesting and more adventurous than before.