this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2023
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I've found that disconnecting helps. Leave your phone at home and go out. Chat with the guy you see every day at the grocery store. Go play chess or pétanque in the park with a friend. You don't have to do this too often, and you'll feel less like a product yourself.
Especially the elderly in my experience. The generation that used to tell us not to believe everything we see on the internet is now glued to Facebook.
Addiction is a lot easier when you make the surroundings more hellish and thus the substance more palatable
Dear Faust. I'm not sure what worse.
I don't use any of those, but if you are not in China and will never visit it, then Wechat maybe fine for you. Build your own threat model.