Get rid of all your accounts. Shop only at local small businesses. Get rid of this poison in your life. Meet people in person. Join community groups and church/synagogue groups.
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Get rid of all your accounts. Shop only at local small businesses. Get rid of this poison in your life. Meet people in person. Join community groups and church/synagogue groups.
You have a point about social media. In theory, it is a tool that connects us so much that it should keep the government in check. Unfortunately, it is corrupted by the government - and used as a propaganda and spy tool.
I've been off social media for 7 years. Best decision I ever made. For people that want to stick with it, I would recommend having a "time and place" for it. When we were growing up, you traveled to the internet. It was home, or in a library. It was slightly out of reach. So, you had a time to visit the internet. In that sense, the internet didn't invade your life. You controlled when and where you saw it.
Bring that back - and you will be much happier. Don't use your phone for internet. Buy a laptop, or desktop. I don't care if you sit 10 hours in front of it or 1, it is infinitely better than walking around in a constant state of "online."
You could treat it a bit like dial-up. I'm an older millennial, and we only had slow dial-up in our area for ages and ages. You had to check with parents that it was okay to tie up the phone line, and then a time limit so you couldn't just play around online for hours. I really need to do that, actually. I could do something useful instead of wasting so much time online. She said, while online way past bedtime.