On Withdrawal From Social Media
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It's hard to stop interacting. The social bit, I can stop any time.
I quit all social media years ago and it took a long time to fully rid myself of it, I kept re-installing apps etc. HN I load few days per week but mostly to read stories and from time to time comments. Never found HN to be in any way a “social” place that made me want to go back to read people’s comments
A decade or so back in the context of "too much email" some friends and I discussed if we were all rationed to one email a day, what we'd do, and if it was one a week (this is to lists) what we'd do..