👓 I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me a lot happier — and that’s a big problem for social media companies | Stephen Downes

Read I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me a lot happier — and that's a big problem for social media companie by Stephen Downes (downes.ca)

This is yet another example of a genre called "quit lit". It's the post someone writes when they've quit something. These days, what they're mostly likely quitting is social media like Facebook and Twitter. Both have become toxic, serving a bottomless bowl of trivial content, abuse, and advertising. And yet, until the day they quit, people keep going back. But this trend is accelerating - when I quit Facebook more than two years ago, it was unthinkable, but now it's a phenomenon that threatens the company's bottom line. How can they fix it? I'm not sure they can.