Don't forget step 4, being make sure to jump on the next 'big thing' when it comes along so you can write a similar post about you leaving that sodden platform a few years later. Step 5 is usually presented as 'Rinse, Repeat'.
The best way to solve these problems is not jumping on those platforms in the first place. No matter what everyone and his dog may say it is always best to think for yourself what benefit - if any - that 'great new service' would have in reality and what price it carries for delivering that potential benefit. What things like Facebook potentially gave was a way to find long lost acquaintances with whom to share... well, what, really? Those people ended up being lost acquaintances in the first place because you did not share that much with them other than a temporary sojourn in a college hall or classroom. A few of them probably stuck around to become friends in real life, the rest faded into the background. Facebook dug them up for you so you could tell each other what food you had today or that you walked the dog again. Then one of them started posting photos of himself on some sunny beach, creating envy in all his contacts who hurried to post similar photos of themselves on even sunnier beaches. Rinse... Repeat...
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Don't forget step 4, being make sure to jump on the next 'big thing' when it comes along so you can write a similar post about you leaving that sodden platform a few years later. Step 5 is usually presented as 'Rinse, Repeat'.
The best way to solve these problems is not jumping on those platforms in the first place. No matter what everyone and his dog may say it is always best to think for yourself what benefit - if any - that 'great new service' would have in reality and what price it carries for delivering that potential benefit. What things like Facebook potentially gave was a way to find long lost acquaintances with whom to share... well, what, really? Those people ended up being lost acquaintances in the first place because you did not share that much with them other than a temporary sojourn in a college hall or classroom. A few of them probably stuck around to become friends in real life, the rest faded into the background. Facebook dug them up for you so you could tell each other what food you had today or that you walked the dog again. Then one of them started posting photos of himself on some sunny beach, creating envy in all his contacts who hurried to post similar photos of themselves on even sunnier beaches. Rinse... Repeat...