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The people going 'monk mode' to limit social media use
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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.
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.
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.
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.
There's Leechblock NG for Firefox and Chrome for an active extension that achieves this.