"I tried leaving Facebook. I couldn’t" by Sarah Jeong https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/28/17293056/facebook-deletefacebook-social-network-monopoly
Great read, and this comment in a thread by her also hits home for me: https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/990974005162094599
@nolan it's interesting to see how other people engage with leaving social media. I felt like a weight was lifted when I left a few years back. I feel like people are experiencing an anxiety of disconnection with social media, but they are rationalizing it as something else (because disconnection is tricky to talk about). I wonder at the depth of a friendship when not using a particular app jeopardizes it.
I wonder also if people are scared to admit just how dependent on it they really are
@nolan
@jerry @nolan In my personal experience people LOVE admitting how addicted to Facebook they are.... it's like caffeine; there's a positive cultural regard around dependency. I agree that fear is still there, but I'm wondering if it might be a fear of loneliness/disconnection... that's certainly what it was for me. Maybe we are both saying the same things, actually.
