<story><title>Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/06/opinion/sunday/dont-let-facebook-make-you-miserable.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>feocco</author><text>This comment thread hits the nail on the head for why I deactivated my social media.&lt;p&gt;But I haven&amp;#x27;t found a good alternative &amp;quot;productive&amp;quot; time waster for when my mind needs a short break.</text></item><item><author>brightball</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s actually why I deleted my account. The constant anger about everything was just unnecessary in my life.</text></item><item><author>trevyn</author><text>This. It used to be closer to the former, but today it seems like all my &amp;quot;friends&amp;quot; are just raging about the latest ragefest. I am not envious of being overtaken by these emotions. :-)</text></item><item><author>tsm</author><text>Facebook doesn&amp;#x27;t make me miserable because I feel like I&amp;#x27;m having less fun and being less glamorous than the friends on my news feed—it makes me miserable because it&amp;#x27;s an addicting timewaster with minimal utility and I&amp;#x27;d much rather be [reading a book, playing music, writing software, hanging out with friends IRL, working on a project, sleeping, watching TV…]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>5thaccount</author><text>&amp;gt; But I haven&amp;#x27;t found a good alternative &amp;quot;productive&amp;quot; time waster for when my mind needs a short break.&lt;p&gt;Hacker News? I mean, you posted this right here!</text></comment>
<story><title>Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/06/opinion/sunday/dont-let-facebook-make-you-miserable.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>feocco</author><text>This comment thread hits the nail on the head for why I deactivated my social media.&lt;p&gt;But I haven&amp;#x27;t found a good alternative &amp;quot;productive&amp;quot; time waster for when my mind needs a short break.</text></item><item><author>brightball</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s actually why I deleted my account. The constant anger about everything was just unnecessary in my life.</text></item><item><author>trevyn</author><text>This. It used to be closer to the former, but today it seems like all my &amp;quot;friends&amp;quot; are just raging about the latest ragefest. I am not envious of being overtaken by these emotions. :-)</text></item><item><author>tsm</author><text>Facebook doesn&amp;#x27;t make me miserable because I feel like I&amp;#x27;m having less fun and being less glamorous than the friends on my news feed—it makes me miserable because it&amp;#x27;s an addicting timewaster with minimal utility and I&amp;#x27;d much rather be [reading a book, playing music, writing software, hanging out with friends IRL, working on a project, sleeping, watching TV…]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rublev</author><text>I force myself to bounce between reading a book and working, the computer is mostly a tool to get work done &amp;#x2F; research things quickly now for me. It&amp;#x27;s super boring in the immediate but rewarding once you put the work in which is a stark contrast to constantly coding -&amp;gt; compiling and filling up that instant gratification meter.</text></comment>