RE: The time is now.

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I used to be big on quitting things. No drinking! No smoking! No Facebook! Now I don't think that's so healthy either. You're making the thing you don't want to do the center of your attention. You're fetishizing it.

I think it's better to find something else you'd rather do, and then focus your attention on that. Eventually the thing you're trying to quit won't seem so big and important any more.

It certainly feels like we're falling out of love with social media--at least the high velocity, data gathering, dopamine-hit kind. But what can we pour our energy and attention into that might be better?

I mean, Hive seems like a good start, doesn't it?



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There is some fiction in your truth
and some truth to your fiction.

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Oh definitely. You meet all sorts of people who make it into this whole big thing. "Oh I'm not on social media", and then point this out at every opportunity. Like it equals who they are. Strange.

Ha, it's funny you should mention that. @anomadsoul had a post (fairly) recently about how his break from Hive generated much the same anxiety as being away from traditional social media. That being said, the two aren't on the same level at all. Since interaction here is genuine and insightful, yes, it seems like the better option of the two, by far.

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