Instead of quitting, just find interesting videos which teach you something useful and/or fulfilling, or which intensify your non-youtube interests. This may make it more likely that you'll gradually use youtube less?
I hope this sparks a lively discussion on the pros and cons of social media, but on a meta level I’m bothered that this is basically a book release announcement dressed up as an article. Why not just do an honest book review?
Seems like there's a huge glut of articles about quitting social media recently. Which is fine, it's not a good thing to be addicted to these sites and their effects on society are questionable, but these articles don't really seem to be making much difference here. What can actually be done to get people to drop Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/Instagram/whatever?
I’m a year in to having less social media no: facebook, twitter, instagram.
I mean, I quit them because they were irritating me, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that removing an irritent from my life feels like a relief.
The one remaining dreg of reason I might want to get back is local sales and sports groups which seem to be on Facebook exclusively. But thats about it.
I don't think social media is inherently problematic. Mastodon is a great example of social media being done right where the platform is driven by the community and avoids all the problems of corporate platforms like Fb and Twitter. The real problem is with social media being run by companies that monetize their users.
I'm about two weeks in from quitting reddit completely.
A. I have so much more time available.
B. I have never been so productive. One programming project that had been languishing for months has progressed from 'hopeless case' to 'aha!' to 'plain sailing'.
C. Those extraneous matters raised by reddit topics aren't cluttering up my brain.
Reddit is kind of like playing Call of Duty multiplayer as a noob. You basically going get knocked out in the first 30 seconds. Or otherwise get no response. HN is similar.. most of the time a comment is either misinterpreted or ignored completely.
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Disable auto-play.
Never click on a “recommended” video.
Subscribe to channels with high quality content.
Basically be picky, and make sure to be the one selecting what to watch.
Hiding the recommended videos bar on YouTube would be a great use for an adblock rule.
I mean, I quit them because they were irritating me, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that removing an irritent from my life feels like a relief.
The one remaining dreg of reason I might want to get back is local sales and sports groups which seem to be on Facebook exclusively. But thats about it.
A. I have so much more time available.
B. I have never been so productive. One programming project that had been languishing for months has progressed from 'hopeless case' to 'aha!' to 'plain sailing'.
C. Those extraneous matters raised by reddit topics aren't cluttering up my brain.