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Stephen Downes

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If you're thinking of leaving the big social media sites (and who isn't these days?) then you have a few options: jump to the fediverse, or return to traditional media. I think news media are trying really hard to make returning the latter approach a thing.The message in this BBC article is mostly that social media is addictive and unhealthy, that people are overly focused on creating content, and that it's so much better to, say, "read 15 pages of a book every night instead." Or maybe they should be reading their favourite news site? But passive consumption isn't for everybody: "I'd like to create my own world for the next phase of my life and I don't want to be influenced by others," says Helen Blunden

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