The evidence is mounting that the brightest, most productive people stay off the web. It's just not worth their time, plus it doesn't develop good habits of mind. It's amazing that a staple of the advice I see in self-help books nowadays is "read books." Really? People need to be told this? Then again, I don't really read books that much. I try to, and I do it all the time for school, but it's not the default use of my free time. Brb, quitting the internet.
I don't think this is implying to flat out "stay off the web." I gathered "stay off of social media, and otherwise (non-intelligent) mediums," which is something I can get behind. Hubski seems to have some relatively intelligent banter on here in my brief experience on the site.
I see the "stay off social media" advice a lot. I have to wonder if the people who say that are using social media the same way as I am, and still want to get off it. I think an interesting hubski though experiment would be everyone taking an objective look at their facebook feeds to see exactly how high or low quality the content actually is, and what this says about the site they presumably spend so much time on. I suspect the answer would be that for a lot of us, nearly everything on our facebook feed is meaningful or interesting to see. The damn thing has personalization as a feature, after all. So I've never understood that paradigm.
meh... I found everything on facebook incredibly mundane and repetitive, and so I got rid of it a few years ago (some time around late 2009 or early 2010). I also was starting to have some privacy concerns, and I think I was pretty far ahead of the curve on that. My facebook experience prior to shutting it off though was similar to: Oh, you had a baby, here's a picture of the kid, now the kid has cake on his face... Oh this other person had a baby, here's a picture of that kid... she has cake on her face too... Oh, you want to tell me how I should vote... thanks, I sincerely appreciate your insight! :/ Oh, you're eating a sandwich, cool... It's Saturday... Go Gators, UCF, Miami, USF, and FSU... bleh I enjoy talking with people on hubski / reddit significantly more; although reddit has been declining for a while now too... which prompted me to find Hubski :D
Well there's a ... block function ... I don't understand the huge class of people who use facebook regularly, complain about it even more regularly, and don't do anything to customize it. Sure, deleting it is one route, and that's fine, although if I deleted my facebook I think I'd probably lose my job (or at least have to expend tons of effort to keep it). However, what I found was that if you block the people who post the sandwiches, facebook becomes possibly the product it was supposed to be.
Yep, that's all I use facebook for now days. If I have a quick message that I want to send to a friend that is easier to send on facebook than through text then I will do it that way. Other than this specific context though, I don't use facebook at all.
what about parties? do you use facebook invite?