A growing number of individuals are using apps to block access to social media and the internet.

The people going ‘monk mode’ to limit social media use::A growing number of individuals are using apps to block access to social media and the internet.

  • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    When I was in college I did a similar thing using a Chrome add on that removed my Facebook news feed during finals week. At some point since I left college though, either Facebook changed their algorithm or enough friends dropped the platform that I basically just don’t use it anymore. There’s people I’d like to interact with still on there, but I just stopped seeing their stuff.

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      When I scroll Facebook I get like one post from someone I know for every 10 sponsored/suggested posts from random shit I don’t care about.

      • thejml@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        This is why I left 5 years ago. I never actually got to see my friends posts, so what was the point? I could manually pull up everyone’s page, but that wasn’t the point. I was wasting so much time just trying to see if I missed anything that I gave up, quit the platform and honestly didn’t feel like I missed anything.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I’ve added those suggested posts to my uBlock filter.

        Now every time I open Facebook, it starts to flip out by loading stuff and immediately blocking it until I encounter a post from my friends.

        Really shows you how little is actually posted.