Despite not posting nearly as much as I used to on Facebook, I find myself endlessly scrolling through it, looking for new posts to share or comment on. I got to do more to hold myself back on that. The thing is the Facebook Lite app uses so little data, and my phone now has such a generous data plan, it’s so easy to just open it up and keep scrolling.
This explains everything you need to know about Facebook these days.soci
I recent months I stopped answering Facebook comments, 💭 especially if they are policy or political related — and up for debate. Instead, if I think I have something to offer to the discussion, I will write a short essay for placing on my blog. This breaks the cycle of silly back and forth on a comment thread, 😡and lets me me carefully think about the issue in ways that aren’t so snippy and nasty. ⌨
Being active on Twitter has practically become part of the job description for some of the most influential people in the country. Any politician, journalist, or CEO who does not engage with social media gives up a precious chance to shape the conversation. And any public or semipublic figure who fails to monitor what is happening on the platform risks missing attacks or accusations that can quickly find their way into the headlines of national newspapers and the chyrons of cable-news shows.
Obligation breeds habit and habit addiction. The most active Twitter users I know check the platform as soon as they wake up to see what they missed. Throughout the day, they seize on the little interstices of time they have available to them—on the way to work, or in between meetings—to follow each new development in that day’s controversies. Even in the evening, when they are settling down to dinner, they cheer attacks against their enemies, or quietly fume over the mean tweet some anonymous user sent their way. Minutes before they finally drift off to sleep, they check their notifications one last time.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of the most prolific and powerful politicians on social media, with millions of followers who hang on her every post and tweet. She's said goodbye to Facebook, though. On Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez, 29, told Yahoo News podcast Skullduggery that she had given up her personal account on the world's largest social network (the Democratic representative still has a professional presence, with a verified profile and plenty of political ads running on Facebook). She called social media a "public health risk" that results in issues like increased isolation, depression, addiction, escapism and anxiety. "I think it poses these issues to everyone," the New York congresswoman said. She said she's started to impose "little rules" on herself in other social domains such as Twitter, which she tries to stay off on the weekends. She didn't elaborate on why, precisely, she left Facebook (FB) specifically. But the website has come to embody many of the ills of social media.