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Comment by talsraviv | Hacker News Reader

I was close to deleting my Facebook account when I discovered the News Feed Eradicator[1]. This way I can still use messages, groups, events, etc. without having to experience the dreaded news feed. It really improved my quality of life.

Another major step I took was to stop posting. That way I had no expectations of feedback and logged in far less in general.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...

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I just started using this, and it's wonderful. I previously was using Stayfocusd to limit Facebook time to 5 minutes per day, which I depleted quickly. Sometimes I got cut off in the middle of writing a reply to someone, or even doing something for work. Now I don't have to restrict myself anymore, since there's nothing to mindlessly scroll through.

Reading the feed was like playing slots. It pays out just enough to keep you playing, but on net you're still losing. "Maybe that next post will be interesting! Oh, nope, just another story about Donald Trump. On to the next post..." Never again.

reminds me of:

The Purge: What happens when you unfollow everyone on the Internet? https://medium.com/@helena/the-purge-what-happens-when-you-u...

Thanks for introducing me to this extension. I've been using my hand to cover news feeds on fb, twitter, etc when I need to go in and respond to a message or something. Although it's easy for me to do that as social news feeds don't hog my attention as much as they induce anxiety.

Not many people seem to know about it, but there's also http://messenger.com for just the messages.

also take this to another level with ublock, you can block whichever elements of any page you want, eg the related videos on youtube.

Few weeks ago I decided to use facebook only for messages and events - I blocked the search bar, news feed, and the box on the right (I'm not sure how it's called). I use ublock origin, these are my filters that seem to do that:

https://gist.github.com/t0mk/ce14b1e11c1c0229972b

(I half clicked it, half wrote. It was guessing, I don't really know what the ### does and why jsonp)

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