Has anybody quit normalbook?
Did you perceive any benefits to your life from doing so?
Has anybody quit normalbook?
Justin Allen
James Gutierrez
I only check it every 3 days or so just to see what friends/family are up to. How are people so addicted that quitting seems like a noble thing to do???
Leo Perry
Yes and yes.
Aaron Foster
i stopped using it about a year ago.
i don't miss it.
Christian Lee
Deactivated my account but still use messenger to stay in touch with people. Now I spend the time I used to spend aimlessly scrolling on there, here. Go figure.
Ethan Morales
Yes to both of your questions
Leo Hughes
Yes, I got rid of it almost a year ago. I wasn't really an active user beforehand, but it was still a frequent enough use to take up more time from my day than I'd like. Since I've deleted it I've noticed a definite improvement in my general mood, and I spend less time sitting around procrastinating. I really only come on here in the mornings to laugh at the fph threads and shitpost with you lads.
Nathan Lewis
Gave it up three years ago and haven't looked back. It's wonderful.
Jordan Hill
Yes. I have had no social media since 2013. That shit is not healthy for you. It gives you a false perception of the world and others, wastes time, and I think the instant gratification of scrolling mindlessly through feeds fucks your attention span.
The benefits are more free time, not being caught up in the brag/bitch olympics, better social skills, and the ability to focus on shit. The fact that I'm a social media ghost and can sit without having to see the world through my phone blows normie minds.
You have the net of human knowledge available online and all you faggots watch cat videos or ogle your high school crush. This basketweaving forum at least has useful information between the memes and trolling.
John Reyes
Yes and honestly no
Though I feel my relationship falling apart was more rooted then just FB
Tyler Smith
kinda like Jow Forums
Eli Jones
do I need to quit Jow Forums to make it?
Logan Hernandez
Been off since 2014. One of the best decisions I ever made. Have a group of 7 irl friends that I hang out with a couple of times a month and a pretty cool gf, plus family events. It's a comfy ass life
Aiden Stewart
quit facebook in 2007 (yep)
you will literally never miss it or think of it again after 1-2 weeks
it has never contributed anything to your life and all of your reasons for using it are the rationalizations of an addict
Angel Myers
>2018
>facebook
wew gramps
IG is superior anyway. All the cool kids use it and its pretty much just photos, so you could just browse thots without having to reed dumb posts.
Who the fuck still uses FB aside for the 40+ years old
Justin Nguyen
>This basketweaving forum at least has useful information between the memes and trolling
All jokes aside if you dig through the pile of shit that is this site you find diamonds. Found lots of great yt channels, tools, and podcasts from user. This board in particular got me back into lifting, which is definitely not a waste of my time. The temporary and anonymous nature of it helps curb lots of the negative shit that comes with say normiebook.
I have 4-5 boards that I lurk that give me good info. The other day on /ck/ user figured out why my lean sourdough crust was too hard. Read between the memes bruh.
Hunter Hughes
Never had any form of social media, besides a frog twitter. When I was like 13 and everyone was starting to get Facebook my mom wouldn't let me have one. As a result, I became a robot that no one knew.
Bentley Robinson
>addict
You know, I quit facebook a probably a year or so ago, and it really is addictive. I mostly quit to get away from the HURRR LOOK AT ME HURRR I'M SO COOL, or bitch/brag Olympics, as another user said.
Nolan Edwards
yep
>Found lots of great yt channels, tools, and podcasts from user
>he thinks youtube and podcasts help him
Those two things are two of the biggest distractions you can possibly have in your life. You're never going to make it you think these things will benefit you.
Christopher Walker
The last yt channel I watched was Ramsay cooking and the last podcast was for learning a new language otw to work. Before that it was on nutrition. Do you only watch cat videos and comedy casts or something? Music < books on tape for long drives as well.
4/10 for response tho bruh ya got me
Isaiah Brown
I only have it for college reasons, as I'm involved on campus with a few things. But I've deleted my Twitter and Instagram, only open faceberg when I get a notification for something, and hardly use snapchat at all. Getting away from social media has been a big help in my life. Sure, it feels like I'm distant from my friends sometimes, but it makes the times I see them in person all the better. I don't use my phone for much except music, texting, stocks, calendar, and 4chinz. Basically be the least amount of normie possible and things get better.
Juan Ramirez
>Joined this year because of work, but to also try and rebuild and improve social life with people from high school.
>Same with snapchat.
>Five/6 months later, still spend friday nights alone, still don't really know proper use of them.
What the fuck am I supposed to do?
Jonathan Reyes
I really, really want to but people in the film industry use it for getting jobs, so I can't... yet.
Caleb Gomez
I have only Facebook, which I barely ever use. I deleted all my other social media accounts and apps from my phone. No one can post on my Facebook. The only reason I keep it is to stay in touch with family and old friends. I have only 133 friends, lol. Social media is cancerous, and I even convinced my normie gf to delete her accounts, which she did.
Bentley Gutierrez
Yes, I quit normiebook. Feels good, and it frees up my morning. Normies cannot handle much banter anyways.
Pic related normie book in a nut shell.
Landon Martin
I only use it to chat with my braindead boomer friends. Haven't checked the actual site in months.
Jordan Diaz
Quitting this place would be much more beneficial to me.
In the 10 years of using this site I've learned so little that's useful. Unless people start hiring meme historians or something equally as farfetched. I also think that being anonymous so long harms you internally. There's this false idea that the anonymous you is somehow more true than who you are with friends, family or strangers. I think this is wrong for various reasons but I think Jow Forums can turn you into more of an aspie wierdo than you'd otherwise be.
Most of what's useful is in stickies or paste bins at the start of generals and everything else would be best learned by experience rather than asking in an faq thread.
I sound finger pointy here but I'm aware that wasting all this time has been my fault and am currently in the middle of trying to fix that.
I guess don't fall into the trap of thinking that you're safe from wasting time or that your way of wasting time is somehow superior to anything "normie" related.
It's all the same shallow entertainment sprinkled with the occasional diamond of knowledge that could have been found quicker with dedicated research anyway.
Lucas Young
>Did you perceive any benefits to your life from doing so?
Along with Jow Forums, yes.
TIME
OH MY FUCKING GOD, TIME
DID YOU FUCKING KNOW THAT THERE ARE 17 FUCKING HOURS IN A DAY, IF YOU SLEEP 7 HOURS?
17
FUCKING
HOURS
DO TO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT
SO MUCH FREE FUCKING TIME
Also privacy, not everybody can google your name and stalk your ass to death
Carter Peterson
if you haven't quit all forms of normie social media including most boards on this site you won't make it
David Cook
Like 6 years ago.
My mental health has improved immeasurably. It's a SUBSTITUTE, not an enhancement. You can absolutely have friends and gf and go to parties with just a phone number, kikebook is pointless unless you're an attention addict, in which case you need to delet yr life
Matthew James
I think I got off of all social media around 2011. I don't miss it. If you really care about someone you call to talk to them. Social media is a cancer on our society.