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A few months ago I left all social media for 8 days. No one noticed. Not a soul. Family, friends, no one. Haha

next, we find out TT was a catfish all along

That's the last straw I'm out of here.

I saw the best minds of my generation, destroyed by deactivation missives

I remember noted DC blowhard Ted Cruz posting on Twitter for weeks about how he was leaving Twitter for Parler, and how it was SOOOO much better over there. I left Twitter when Elmo took over, but I'm guessing that Ol'Rafael is still there.

I remember this sort of thing from Listservs back in the day.

Statistically, it takes about seven tries on average before a victim finally leaves their abuser. And because that’s likely a mean average… woof.

I do love a good Flounce

in the 90s we called this QIC - "quit IRC forever"

it also reminds me of y2k

Rare quit Same as it ever was (from 2006) www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/the-...

Already walked. Gotta be sure there isn’t any content tomorrow - expired stories, etc

"this is not an airport, no need to announce your departure"

Which tells you how addictive all this is.... I have been there....Missing the dopamine hit is real....😭

that’s because its relatively a new way to spend your time and people are suspicious and unsure of its relationship to human happiness and flourishing

But they couldn't stay gone! The lurkers supported them in email!

I’ve never had an account with any facebook services and I’m old

I wish better apps would come along to replace FB and IG. I’d love to drop them.

the tradition is not complete without the obligatory “here’s what i learnt from being off of social media for x amount of time” post

Tell that to Myspace. #notgoingback

It was always responded with “this ain’t an airport no need to announce your departure”

"Dear Richard..."

It’s the blueprint.

Indeed. The bulk emailer scam emails are still as garbage tho. Mate member when ascii art vanished and emoticons came back.... and then weird ai started making gifs and then ascii art came back and hacked the ai? medium.com/predict/hack...

Me watching the chaos.."First time?"

Very true

And hey, it’s TikTok. Acting out for attention is kinda on brand. *YAWN*

All it comes down to is addiction and comfort of familiarity. It could be announced that all social media platforms run on blended remains of orphans and not much would happen.

I’m as guilty of that one as anybody.

“See yah tomorrow”

I've quit several social media platforms at this point. Threads is going to be joining Friendster, MySpace, Twitter, and a few others pretty soon.

Folks get addicted to those high engagement numbers, even though many are bots and trolls. Rather have lower numbers of mutually interacting humans.

Ah yes, the Flounce.

I definitely had a friend do this on various BBSs in the early 1990s.

Don't go back. Trump will have control of TikTok. That's the deal

That must be why people don't believe me when I say I'm drawing a line.

…even TikTok did it..

Oh! It's 2pm, so I've made it more than 1/2 day on my week long Facebook vacation. I guess this is a please clap moment, though it's not too rough so far :-)

I love a good flounce. They never last.

The forum flounce! Plus ça change, plus c’est la même fuckin chose.

That was nu-twitter. We just went and found old twitter.

laughs so true

It’s almost like dopamine is addictive

On Livejournal it was a Very Big Deal to announce you were taking a month off, and then you'd end up checking in halfway through anyway. Like you were making some big lifestyle change.

Kaepernick Syndrome

Zuckerberg bought it. I won’t touch it again

😂🤣😂

It's almost like you can't just leave a pile of files around without some strange woman showing up.

Flince Flounce

In Soviet America, social media quits you

Can't count how many members of listservs I was on did just that back in the dawn of time...

Taking supply away from the junkies is a tried and tested approach.

sure, but Musk & Zuck have never been this arrogant and brazen. Never going back.

This is my first personal social media account ever, so it's an easy quit for me. I think if the content on other sites continues to be awful, it'll be easier fir lots of folks this time.

genuinely don't miss that lol I understand saying it for a boycott or whatever, but just leave! if someone misses you, they can reach you via telephone or shout into the void like the rest of us

Cow*

Flounce one-niner, you're cleared for takeoff, two-five right. Set RNAV to DOCKR. 🛫 Contact SoCal departure, 124.3. See ya!