<story><title>Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression</title><url>https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/jscp.2018.37.10.751</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>schindlabua</author><text>My policy is to decrease on push notifications as far as possible. WhatsApp and Telegram still have the privilege but that&amp;#x27;s it. I feel like by seeking out information rather than it coming to me, I at least am making a conscious decision to waste time on social media.&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, implementing that had the effect of me now spending hardly any time on there at all. Funny how that works!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>captainbland</author><text>Yeah I&amp;#x27;ve been doing much the same, I&amp;#x27;ve given mastodon a pass for now for direct mentions only (which tootdon lets you configure) because those notifications are people&amp;#x27;s actual interactions with me - whereas with Twitter and Facebook it&amp;#x27;s generally any old crap that happens to one of my friends or follows, or sometimes even somebody else who some people I know have followed (who cares?!) so that gets turned right off. In fact I don&amp;#x27;t even have the Facebook app, I just look at it in my browser - sometimes it still manages to sneak a few notifications through Chrome even though I was sure I turned those off.&lt;p&gt;Mostly it&amp;#x27;s just very annoying when for some reason my phone doesn&amp;#x27;t manage to prioritise push messages which come from direct messages or SMS and so they somehow manage to get buried under a honking slew of social media detritus.</text></comment>
<story><title>Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression</title><url>https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/jscp.2018.37.10.751</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>schindlabua</author><text>My policy is to decrease on push notifications as far as possible. WhatsApp and Telegram still have the privilege but that&amp;#x27;s it. I feel like by seeking out information rather than it coming to me, I at least am making a conscious decision to waste time on social media.&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, implementing that had the effect of me now spending hardly any time on there at all. Funny how that works!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffhiggins</author><text>I’ve started leaving DND mode on 24&amp;#x2F;7. I go to my notifications, they don’t come to me anymore. This also prevents your iPhone from being DOS’d by a phone call at any moment.</text></comment>