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A week ago I deleted my Twitter account. Today I'm deleting my Reddit account. I'm keeping Facebook simply to stay in touch with family and a few friends, otherwise it would definitely go. I'm on the fence about HN, but it will probably go as well.

These online communities are a net negative in my life, and I'm done.

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I deleted Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and other social accounts five years ago. Now I am refreshing HN all day, and other sites too. This problem really not about the platform, its about the consumer here.

when folks talk about going cold turkey like this, I have a question for them - do you think they were a net negative or our capability to moderate our use of these social media was not controllable?

I think that platforms like Reddit and Twitter have been designed and tuned to keep people in "violent agreement". I found myself engaging in conversations that ultimately were just a time sink.

I have better things to do with my time. I think I wasted two years of my life doom scrolling. Time to be done.

We'll see about HN. This might be my last comment here.

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