I would take this notion or feeling more genuienly if said people then actually stopped using and deleted Facebook/Instagram/Tiktok, etc.
The reality is that social media with a profit motive is basically a digital drug that operates via dopamine pathways, and most people these days are addicts.
Quit then, go clean, and I’ll take these people more seriously.
Don’t make tiktok reels about the idea of this so that you can feel ‘appreciated’ by view count and follower number go up.
I do appreciate that this can be very difficult and scary. But … you’re gonna need real self-control and discipline to quit an addicition, and you’re gonna need to actually quit, to achieve the goal you say you want to achieve.
Us here on lemmy, we’re largely here because in some way or another… we recognize this already, on some level, to some degree, as we’ve specifically sought out a kind of ‘least insane and systemically exploitative’ way of mass public communicating with randos.
I would take this notion or feeling more genuienly if said people then actually stopped using and deleted Facebook/Instagram/Tiktok, etc.
The reality is that social media with a profit motive is basically a digital drug that operates via dopamine pathways, and most people these days are addicts.
Quit then, go clean, and I’ll take these people more seriously.
Don’t make tiktok reels about the idea of this so that you can feel ‘appreciated’ by view count and follower number go up.
I do appreciate that this can be very difficult and scary. But … you’re gonna need real self-control and discipline to quit an addicition, and you’re gonna need to actually quit, to achieve the goal you say you want to achieve.
Us here on lemmy, we’re largely here because in some way or another… we recognize this already, on some level, to some degree, as we’ve specifically sought out a kind of ‘least insane and systemically exploitative’ way of mass public communicating with randos.
But the normies just don’t truly ‘get it’ yet.