I deleted Facebook cold turkey. I don’t regret it at all. I still enjoy Instagram. I find the ads on Instagram very relevant and sometimes find cool new things there (I enjoy everyday carry/outdoorsy topics). I think I’ll probably delete Instagram in a year or two though, I don’t think Facebook will maintain it well.
Twitter would be the hardest for me to let go. I enjoy seeing posts from friends, developers, journalists, and comedians there. Using Jumbo app to prune any tweets older than a month helps me feel like it’s less a permanent record on myself.
And finally, the tech I’m most worried about keeping but can’t really let go of because of family and friends is WhatsApp. They’ll have to make money with it one day and all the pressure from other governments to decrypt seems like it might hit a breaking point for them.
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I deleted Facebook cold turkey. I don’t regret it at all. I still enjoy Instagram. I find the ads on Instagram very relevant and sometimes find cool new things there (I enjoy everyday carry/outdoorsy topics). I think I’ll probably delete Instagram in a year or two though, I don’t think Facebook will maintain it well.
Twitter would be the hardest for me to let go. I enjoy seeing posts from friends, developers, journalists, and comedians there. Using Jumbo app to prune any tweets older than a month helps me feel like it’s less a permanent record on myself.
And finally, the tech I’m most worried about keeping but can’t really let go of because of family and friends is WhatsApp. They’ll have to make money with it one day and all the pressure from other governments to decrypt seems like it might hit a breaking point for them.