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How to Delete All of Your Social Media Accounts (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 week ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/privacy@programming.dev

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Here’s an evergreen take: There has never been a better time to get off social media.

Social services have evolved even further into becoming sticky traps for doomscrolling and AI-generated slop, and are hitherto unprecedented frontiers for rage bait. Bummed out about all the misinformation and being part of a profit machine that funds one increasingly unhinged billionaire or another? Well, there’s a way out.

Unfortunately, social media companies don’t always make it very easy to rescind their grips on your attention. They bury deletion and deactivation options deep in their sidebars and menus and do everything in their power to keep you engaged and scrolling.

It’s not always easy, but if you’re eager to exorcise the demons of social media from your life.

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 points 1 week ago

Dunno about iOS, but on Android you can do the same things even with the commercial apps with regard to notifications, ringing, etc. You're right about the algorithms and various methods of trying to keep you "engaged," though.