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it's not that they "don't grasp" what you want, it's that they couldn't care less what you want
the way i was able to eventually delete my account was to sit down and delete everything i'd ever posted, every photo, every comment, etc. makes it easier to just say YES i want to remove this bullshit from my life altogether
great. and I hope you did the same for whatsapp et instragram
fb was the only thing i was using. election '24 gave me the extra motivation to just delete the entire account that was sitting empty anyway. now it's pretty much just piefed/lemmy, and will eventually delete these too
Cambridge Analytica gave me that motivation.
It was time then, and it past time now.
the psychological dependence is real. i get why it seems impossible for a lot of people, but yea--gotta reevaluate what's adding value to life, and what's wasting time at best, and causing harm at worst. noticing myself getting angry at all the stupid on fb was a big factor, but also all the anti-privacy bullshit like cambridge analytica, made it easier to ditch the platform
Really? What's wrong with stuff here?
It's social media. You're putting yourself in a bubble. Humans never evolved for this kind of communication and it's making us all sick.
Historically, "social media" meant non-anonymous social connections in which nearly everyone knew everyone's real names; in contrast, Reddit or Reddit-like networks like Lemmy were called "content aggregators."
We're also not in a bubble (what bubble anyway, of anticapitalism?) if we're diversifying our exposure to different sides. The most important aspect is that Lemmy instances seem to be among the more bot-free forums, whereas FB is completely overrun by "AI" spewing lies and fake studies, for example.
I would argue that it only makes you "sick" (what kind of sickness, anyway?) if this is your primary means of your socializing. Message boards involving strangers utilized in one's life in this way should only be a temporary lifeline while you work to gradually build/rebuild a habit of regular, in-person contact. As long as you're diligently striving towards that, it's likely a (perhaps small) net positive. Social media, content aggregators, forums, message boards, etc. are only a net negative if they're your primary approach to voluntary contact with people.
interesting article from ~20 years ago (even before literally everyone was on social media) about this topic
https://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html
spending too much time on it
Did you try blogging? I think blogging can help.
my ultimate goal (wildly ambitious, i'm aware) is to not use the internet for anything except paying bills, buying things i need but can't get locally, and getting news. and research, if i need to buy something expensive that i don't know anything about. i think blogging could be a productive thing, but i've never been a "i want to write an article about my thoughts" kind of person.