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Comment by qeorge | Hacker News Reader

Checking email, Twitter, and Facebook on my phone has also been a constant interruption of time spent with family. I think this is the biggest issue I need to deal with in 2013.

Man, do I ever sympathize. I was finding myself standing in groups of friends, outside on beautiful sunny days, and we'd all have our phones out looking at Facebook and commenting (out loud) on people's statuses (and the comment is always the same - "yeah, I saw that"). Its so lame!

For me the answer was really easy - just uninstall the app from your phone. You don't have to do anything drastic like quit FB, just uninstall the app from your phone and stop letting it fill up every free moment you have.

Do it now, before you do anything else. It will take 30 seconds and could change your life. Uninstall the FB app.

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"Do it now, before you do anything else. It will take 30 seconds and could change your life. Uninstall the FB app."

That's actually what I really needed right now. Both Twitter and Facebook are now gone from my phone. Thank you!

Facebook. Twitter. Uninstalled. What about a moratorium on Hacker News? Personally, I could have launched several apps with the time I've spent reading Hacker News. However, I get a lot out of HN ... Damn ...

I am a bit late to this thread, so you may not see my response. Regardless...

I have wondered about this as well. I am considering two strategies:

1) Stop checking HN at all, and subscribe to Hacker Monthly (http://hackermonthly.com/), which is the best articles of the month in a nice format.

2) Schedule a time to check it once a week, and only look at the list of posts with over 200 points. http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=200

We have to stop spending time on these sites, even when it seems valuable. Nothing is as valuable as actually building something and interacting with users.

I did that this year. Still look at Facebook on the browser but it cut down time on Facebook by a huge amount.

Me and my friends do the same but I don't think it's lame. I love it and can't imagine how things were before smartphones. Am I the only one who likes this social development?

I find it even more awkward when i visit my cousins and they post and tag me on facebook. They will later ask why i never liked/replied even after seeing me 'check facebook' on my phone. I want a less-posted life thats why I'm quitting most social sites.

With a preposterous amount of Facebook users all across the world, I think we are all projecting our personal experience on millions of others to make a value judgement. I personally get nothing out of it. How is it positively changing your life?

I don't use Facebook and uninstalled it from my Android phone. But as soon as I connect to the internet it comes back as an 'update'!!

It's so frustrating. I don't want the goddamn app.

It's a Sony Ericsson Xperia. Does anyone know how to nuke it forever?

Maybe you should try removing it from your Play Store account (the newest Play Store app allows you to remove apps completely), or just try disabling "auto update" for the Facebook app.

I quit Facebook this year and I'm enjoying spending more time with real people.

Well, I can check them using the browser =P FB app is gone for a long time now, it is very slow in my phone.

Just pay attention to your guests instead of making the phone the center of attention.

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