I empathize a lot with this guy. I wanted to share my recent story:
I unfollowed every single person and page I'm connected to on Facebook a month and a half ago.
Every time I look at a Facebook there's just about no value. My feed is empty. Nevertheless, I'll visit it by habit. It's weird to see how that persists.
I am not posting (never really did anyway), and I have no idea what's going on with the people I didn't really interact with that much anyway.
What put me over the edge was answering the question: "Does anyone that I deeply care for post anything (at all)?"
Answer for 90% was no. And there rest I still have phone/text to communicate.
This has all made me consider what relationships in my life are important. And it's made me consider how susceptible I was to a fine-tuned algorithm hungry for outrage and virality, and how that influenced my relationships and myself.
I feel great opting out. I hope to fully delete the whole thing soon. Weird that I can't just do that.
I unfollowed every single person and page I'm connected to on Facebook a month and a half ago.
Every time I look at a Facebook there's just about no value. My feed is empty. Nevertheless, I'll visit it by habit. It's weird to see how that persists.
I am not posting (never really did anyway), and I have no idea what's going on with the people I didn't really interact with that much anyway.
What put me over the edge was answering the question: "Does anyone that I deeply care for post anything (at all)?"
Answer for 90% was no. And there rest I still have phone/text to communicate.
This has all made me consider what relationships in my life are important. And it's made me consider how susceptible I was to a fine-tuned algorithm hungry for outrage and virality, and how that influenced my relationships and myself.
I feel great opting out. I hope to fully delete the whole thing soon. Weird that I can't just do that.
I recommend the unfollow thing.