5 Ways to Escape Social Media
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…

