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Comment by lemonberry | Hacker News Reader

I deleted all of my social media profiles, i.e., unfriended and unfollowed everyone and then deleted my account. It's been a huge plus for me.

What I've done to replace it is email and call people. I'm 42 so many of my friends are receptive to calls that younger people may not be so ymmv.

I'm sure you know this, but your true friends will be there offline whether you see them online or not.

Good luck!

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I'm a 30s fellow and I do this as well. I'm all calls/text message + video calls via Signal/Wire/Skype.

I don't understand the desire to publicly broadcast things and none of my friends have had an issue with it. Of course, my friends are mostly technical or privacy-oriented folks.

A broadcast may be worthwhile when it carries measurable value and: produces unsigned side effects [0]; produces manageable signed side effects [1].

I’m 24, deleted Facebook at 18, WhatsApp last year, and I too am all calls (and emails for longform or bit sharing). I still observe HN, Twitter [2], domain-specific newsletters for value, and occasionally share when there’s value to be added.

While I might have to manage debris, I see value.

[0] https://arxiv.org/rss/cs

[1] https://twitter.com

[2] A meticulously curated, filtered stream.

Texting and callung are very different, sync vs. async.

They are indeed. I prefer to act within the boundaries of bare reality and leverage technology for value-oriented scenarios. I feel business-driven, cognition-altering escape palaces are wrathful, detrimental environments.

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