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Yesterday, Hasan Minhaj deleted Twitter.

Today, Billie Eilish says she's deleted all her social media apps.

This is becoming a big trend amongst prominent people.

It's clear that social media has become toxic.

Yet I don't think the solution is to get rid of social media. That's because social media is core to peoples' lives. For all its negativity, it still empowers people.

Instead, we should be building less toxic social media.

cnn.com/2023/03/03/entertainme…

CNN — Billie Eilish says she has deleted her social media apps from her phone due to her complicated relationship with the internet. The Grammy award-winning singer, who has been less active on digital platforms in recent weeks, explained her decision to distance herself from social media platforms during an appearance on the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast, alongside her brother Finneas. “I don’t look at it anymore,” the 21-year-old said in a clip from the episode, which hasn’t yet been aired. “I’ve deleted it all off my phone.” Eilish noted that the move was “such a huge deal” for her as a self-proclaimed “internet kid.”
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Chris Trottier
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It's not social media when talking to your friends is a gamble.

If you're saying something for friends to see, and the algorithm hides what you're saying because it assumes that what you say is "not relevant" to your friends' interests, that is *not* social media.

That is anti-social media.

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