<story><title>My experiment in phonelessness was a failure, and it also changed my life</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/05/phone-screentime-detox-reflection</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thfuran</author><text>&amp;gt;I&amp;#x27;m a little worried that not having a social media presence &amp;#x2F;at all&amp;#x2F; is going to turn or has turned from mildly admirable (such restraint!) to...weird.&lt;p&gt;Well, I have some good news: here you are, on social media, having a presence. Admittedly, it&amp;#x27;s a bit more niche than Instagram.</text></item><item><author>captainclam</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve never used social media or had a &amp;quot;problem&amp;quot; with my phone. So I used to read articles like this a little smugly, but I&amp;#x27;m growing increasingly discomfited by the notion that I&amp;#x27;m...out of touch..?&lt;p&gt;Yeah, it&amp;#x27;s probably overall a positive thing that I&amp;#x27;ve never been hooked on instagram, but it&amp;#x27;s also a language&amp;#x2F;shared experience with which I have no point of contact. I&amp;#x27;m a little worried that not having a social media presence &amp;#x2F;at all&amp;#x2F; is going to turn or has turned from mildly admirable (such restraint!) to...weird.&lt;p&gt;And it&amp;#x27;s great to be weird! I just hope that it doesn&amp;#x27;t impact potential connections in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dgfitz</author><text>Before the abused and tired notion of &amp;quot;social media&amp;quot; was coined, this was called... a forum. Nothing &amp;quot;media&amp;quot; about it.</text></comment>
<story><title>My experiment in phonelessness was a failure, and it also changed my life</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/05/phone-screentime-detox-reflection</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thfuran</author><text>&amp;gt;I&amp;#x27;m a little worried that not having a social media presence &amp;#x2F;at all&amp;#x2F; is going to turn or has turned from mildly admirable (such restraint!) to...weird.&lt;p&gt;Well, I have some good news: here you are, on social media, having a presence. Admittedly, it&amp;#x27;s a bit more niche than Instagram.</text></item><item><author>captainclam</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve never used social media or had a &amp;quot;problem&amp;quot; with my phone. So I used to read articles like this a little smugly, but I&amp;#x27;m growing increasingly discomfited by the notion that I&amp;#x27;m...out of touch..?&lt;p&gt;Yeah, it&amp;#x27;s probably overall a positive thing that I&amp;#x27;ve never been hooked on instagram, but it&amp;#x27;s also a language&amp;#x2F;shared experience with which I have no point of contact. I&amp;#x27;m a little worried that not having a social media presence &amp;#x2F;at all&amp;#x2F; is going to turn or has turned from mildly admirable (such restraint!) to...weird.&lt;p&gt;And it&amp;#x27;s great to be weird! I just hope that it doesn&amp;#x27;t impact potential connections in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>browningstreet</author><text>National borders and most romantic dates won’t ask for your HN profile but they will ask for all the other major social networks. Not everything with an account and a comment system is a Social Network to lay-people and first encounter authorities.</text></comment>