Quitting Facebook, now with science!

See, science! 

OK, the study suffered from some flaws, not least that anyone who signed up already had quitting on their mental radar screen. It would have been better to get a group for an experiment, then spring it on them what it was about. 

But still. Social media is bad. I know, some of you have met your spouses over social media, but you know that doesn’t really kill the argument, any more than the fact that my parents would not have absent the Spanish Civil War makes that conflict any better. 

Or maybe not, but after this election it is a little harder to be sanguine.

Comments

[Dave K]

Lots of risks in social media besides psychological/emotional ones. I've been off Facebook/social media for 6 years and I don't intend to ever have an account again due to the various risks.

Forswearing social media entirely, renders you an isolated geezer according to my Millennial interns. Oh well.

[JKR]

Also this article from yesterday's New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/jobs/quit-social-media-your-career-may-depend-on-it.html

Posting thoughts and impressions is valuable, and it's nice to go back and see what I was thinking about several years ago, but in the long run, I've come to believe that it's also important to control the settings in which your thoughts appear; I don't believe that Facebook or Twitter offer that option half as well or as easily as a blog with post-by-email enabled.