I hear ya, and that's why I tried to make this entirely about MY experience, and not telling other people what they should or shouldn't do with their social media consumption.

I was able to get off the teat when a friend of mine posted something similar in an email chain a group of us have had going for years.

I was afraid of being lonely, feeling left out, withdrawal symptoms... whatever. Just afraid of not logging in.

And when I realized THAT was my concern - and his experience was an overwhelmingly positive one - that gave me the impetus to try it out.

So the idea of my post is inviting other people to examine their social media experience, and see if it parallels mine. And, if so, one possible thing to do if they want to change their social media experience, is to try what I did.

I tried really hard not to say, YOU SHOULD DO THIS NOW and instead let it be entirely about my personal experience, in the hopes someone might find some value in that perspective.

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Side note: I bristled when you called Hubski "social media"... that doesn't seem right to me... and I wouldn't put Reddit in that column either.

I think it comes down to the infinite scroll. Tools with the infinite scroll; Insta, FB, Twitter, TikTok, etc.

My Reddit and Hubski feeds end when I get to yesterday's content. I see what's new, interact with anything interesting, and go away.

Infinite scroll is insidious and actually short circuits our brain's higher functions.

So I don't put Reddit and Hubski into the "social media" bucket... I think there's still a bucket over in the corner we used to use called "aggregators and commentary". Maybe they fit better in there...