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Well, for me personally, it's a little difficult to abandon many of those social media platforms, not because I like them or spend hours on them, but because in my case, since I live outside my country and left my parents behind, my source of communication with them is through Messenger or WhatsApp, depending on how they work at the time due to the terrible internet in Cuba. They're actually older now, and it took them a while to adapt to using those types of platforms, so imagine teaching them how to use other platforms.
The issue for me is the day-to-day, and showing reality to others. My wife loves looking at Instagram. Little by little, I've been teaching her not to post so many photos, not to expose our children, to only look for things that are useful and important for us, our health, etc., to filter things better and not live off the illusions and "perfect lives" those networks portray.
It's a daily process, nothing more.
24 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 7h
Yeah, at the end of the day, I'm hoping the main point that I'm conveying here is that everybody has their reason for standing where they do in these spectrums, and we can't read each other's brains to really know why. I'm willing to accept the inconvenience of not using WhatsApp because I can. It's just that, inconvenient. If it meant not being able to communicate with a loved one, or putting a strain on my marriage, that would change the whole game for me too.
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