5 Ways to Escape Social Media

Gary McGath
Nov 4 · 5 min read

Vast numbers of people have decided “social media” are their preferred form of communication on the Net. They provide many advantages: Someone else decides which items you should see, your feed gets stuffed with items you never asked for, and the people running the service can arbitrarily cancel or suspend accounts. Repeating what some stranger has said is effortless by design, so you don’t have to express any thoughts of your own.

Some of us, though, regard these “advantages” as disadvantages. We’re the weird ones who want to communicate without a gatekeeper, to choose what we…

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Gary McGath

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Freelance writer, lover of liberty, music, and cats. Computer geek. Other interests include bicycling, history, philosophy, and science fiction.

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