Utah State University: Ask an Expert — Put Your Phone in the Friend Zone on the Global Day of Unplugging. “Global Day of Unplugging is a worldwide 24-hour digital pause, observed this year from sundown March 6 to sundown March 7, that encourages people to disconnect from the electronic world, experience nature and focus on real-world connections.”

CNBC: A ‘quiet revolution’: Why young people are swapping social media for lunch dates, vinyl records and brick phones. “When I discovered the trend, I decided to post on LinkedIn to see if there were any young people willing to speak to me about going offline. To my surprise, I received nearly 100 responses from Gen Z and millennials sharing stories about social media detoxes and digital […]

Engadget: In 2025, quitting social media felt easier than ever. “I remember losing focus, spending long hours on YouTube Shorts and IG. I’d look up bleary-eyed and shame-faced after hours scrolling TikTok’s For You Page. Now, after a few minutes, a bored ickiness sets in. I feel like I’m trapped in a carnival of bots hawking shampoo at me and I just want to go home.”

Mashable: A mass exit from social media. “It was hard to predict how many would be joining us for this ‘Delete Day’ — having no more social media ourselves, we hit the streets with fliers and chalk to spread the word over the past couple of weeks. At the same time, we weren’t surprised by the energetic turnout. People are ready to take a real stance against the attention economy: it’s […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/19/mashable-a-mass-exit-from-social-media/

Fashion Journal: I tapped out of social media for a year, here’s how my life changed. “I didn’t delete social media for mental health reasons. I just needed to focus on my final university assignments. But what started as a temporary break soon became a personal challenge: how long could I last without logging back in?”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/15/fashion-journal-i-tapped-out-of-social-media-for-a-year-heres-how-my-life-changed/

Found in a few of my RSS feeds: Unplatform. From the front page: “Unplatform is an interactive guidebook, online library, and recommendations database intended to help you escape social media and join the indie web.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/29/unplatform/

Suspending Meta

I posted the below to my followers on Facebook.

“I have made the very difficult decision to suspend posting on this (Meta/FB/IG) platform indefinitely.

Facebook and Instagram have been a home for me, a community, and my first steps into a world where I felt accepted and valued for who I was. However, I no longer believe the dominant culture of these platforms support the communities I care so deeply about. I cannot, in good conscience, normalize incivility while allowing Meta to generate revenue from content which I created, as they so blatantly cast aside standards meant to protect the very communities I cherish.

I would like to thank everyone who has been part of my extended family since sharing my adventures. I hope, in time, we can reconnect in other spaces that feel and are actually safe. Until then, please remember, I love you.

P.S. My other social links mattdobbins.com “

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Ich danke allen die hier Hilfe zur Navigation und Nutzung anbieten, mir ist gerade der Aufwand zu hoch und das echte Leben zu schön und #twitter zu viel Aufregung #LeavingTwitter #leavingmastodon #leavingsocialmedia

Und es tut mir leid, 140 Zeichen waren super, hier ist Zuviel Text - ich Akademiker bin überfordert bei Zuviel content