[coffeefirst]

Yeah. I will say, the best place to start is just deactivate one for 30 days and see whether you miss it.

It turns out I didn't actually like any of these apps. If I did, they wouldn't need to play all these dumb games to keep me engaged.

[yepguy]

Nothing wrong with that. One thing I like about my approach though is that I can get what little value there is out of platforms that rarely ever serve up anything useful to me.

Facebook, for example, hardly ever gives me any value, but sometimes it does. If I used Facebook like most people, I would have to check it regularly for that one time I get something valuable from it. The downsides would far outweigh the upside, so it would make sense to delete it. But instead I can go months without ever opening Facebook, and then get notified when there's a post I actually care about, and give it my attention on my own schedule.