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"Do it now, before you do anything else. It will take 30 seconds and could change your life. Uninstall the FB app."

That's actually what I really needed right now. Both Twitter and Facebook are now gone from my phone. Thank you!




Facebook. Twitter. Uninstalled. What about a moratorium on Hacker News? Personally, I could have launched several apps with the time I've spent reading Hacker News. However, I get a lot out of HN ... Damn ...


I am a bit late to this thread, so you may not see my response. Regardless...

I have wondered about this as well. I am considering two strategies:

1) Stop checking HN at all, and subscribe to Hacker Monthly (http://hackermonthly.com/), which is the best articles of the month in a nice format.

2) Schedule a time to check it once a week, and only look at the list of posts with over 200 points. http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=200

We have to stop spending time on these sites, even when it seems valuable. Nothing is as valuable as actually building something and interacting with users.


I did that this year. Still look at Facebook on the browser but it cut down time on Facebook by a huge amount.




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