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> Social media apps are how we connect with people we care about.. Especially when it comes to social apps, deleting them can seem like a radical move, but it really isn't. You can always download the app again if you change your mind — your account will still be there waiting. Sad, but fortunately not true at all. Recall that people made friends for hundreds of thousands of years before social media apps. "Ahh, but if all your friends are on social media apps, you can't hang out with them if you aren't on social media apps too!" Not true either. I have been off Facebook and Twitter since 2008, and never got on anything newer than that. If you count HN, then that's your choice, but I don't have an app for it, and at any rate none of my friends are here. There are no barriers stopping you and your friends from hanging out in a world without social media apps, apart from inertia and some behavior patterns that look a lot like addiction from the outside. Also, there is no difficulty in communicating with people, or scheduling activities with them either. In fact if you find literally any other shared medium of communication, you will be more in touch with them than you are now. So, don't hide your apps, delete them, pausing only to delete your accounts first, so you can never go back to them. |