I’ve found that disconnecting helps. Leave your phone at home and go out. Chat with the guy you see every day at the grocery store. Go play chess or pétanque in the park with a friend. You don’t have to do this too often, and you’ll feel less like a product yourself.
Especially the elderly in my experience. The generation that used to tell us not to believe everything we see on the internet is now glued to Facebook.
Well, at least on facebook, you can have various ideologies (at least until Suckerberg decide to ban you). On Wechat, it’s only whatever the govermment allows.
I’ve found that disconnecting helps. Leave your phone at home and go out. Chat with the guy you see every day at the grocery store. Go play chess or pétanque in the park with a friend. You don’t have to do this too often, and you’ll feel less like a product yourself.
Everyone just stares at their phone these days, even the elderly people
Especially the elderly in my experience. The generation that used to tell us not to believe everything we see on the internet is now glued to Facebook.
Addiction is a lot easier when you make the surroundings more hellish and thus the substance more palatable
My parents use Wechat 💀
Something something America bad, NATO imperialism, etc.
all while living in the country that Wechat told you was bad. 🤔
X country is bad, but a subset of that country I happened to live in is an exception? 🤔???
Like that some crazy double think right there
Dear Faust. I’m not sure what worse.
Well, at least on facebook, you can have various ideologies (at least until Suckerberg decide to ban you). On Wechat, it’s only whatever the govermment allows.
I don’t use any of those, but if you are not in China and will never visit it, then Wechat maybe fine for you. Build your own threat model.
Ew I don’t use corporate platforms. The only one I’ve ever used is Reddit, now with Lemmy, Reddit can fuck off