| It’s pretty interesting to see so many people here suggesting that there’s no value to deleting your account. Like the added friction of creating a new account doesn’t make it less likely for you to relapse, or increase the time it takes for it to happen. Like social media applications won’t send you notifications however they can to keep you engaged. Like it doesn’t affect the companies perceived value to lose real users. Like it doesn’t diminish network effects to see fewer of the people you like on the platform. Like retaining the data you’ve contributed doesn’t increase the performance of their machine learning models, broaden their understanding of consumers, or directly provide content for consumption. (okay this point is a bit shaky because it depends on their data deletion policy, or if you can take advantage of CCPA/GDPR, but you get the idea) I agree that leaving or maintaining healthy use of these platforms ultimately requires developing some amount of self-control, but saying that there’s no value to deleting an account doesn’t seem grounded in truth. I found it way easier to just delete the majority of my social media accounts than try to curate or moderate their use. Most social media platforms aren’t built with your best interests at heart, why risk it for some momentarily satisfying content/interactions that you could probably find elsewhere? |