The people going 'monk mode' to limit social media use (www.bbc.com)

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The people going 'monk mode' to limit social media use::A growing number of individuals are using apps to block access to social media and the internet.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

When I scroll Facebook I get like one post from someone I know for every 10 sponsored/suggested posts from random shit I don't care about.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

This is why I left 5 years ago. I never actually got to see my friends posts, so what was the point? I could manually pull up everyone’s page, but that wasn’t the point. I was wasting so much time just trying to see if I missed anything that I gave up, quit the platform and honestly didn’t feel like I missed anything.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I've added those suggested posts to my uBlock filter.

Now every time I open Facebook, it starts to flip out by loading stuff and immediately blocking it until I encounter a post from my friends.

Really shows you how little is actually posted.

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