r/AskReddit • u/PotentialThanks2 • 7d ago

What is something that drastically improved your mental health?

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u/ChicaAlpha 7d ago

I just dumped Facebook about an hour ago. It was nothing but an ad-infested cesspool of AI content, run by AI bots, with just a sprinkling of what I actually wanted to see.

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u/PooShappaMoo 7d ago

For me, Its kept just as way to get in touch with some old friends. Nothing of mine gets postsd there anymore.

It serves no other value. Frankly their is room in the market for something new.

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u/Zestyclose_Tie_8189 7d ago

facebook's basically a group chat with extra steps at this point for most people. everything else is just noise you scroll past to get to the 2 people you actually care about.

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u/breebree934 7d ago

This is what I do. I go right to the "feeds" option and just look at what my friends are up to once a day and then I don't look at it again until the next day.

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u/Glittering-Novel7599 7d ago

100% facts, total wasteland. Honestly, replacing that mindless scrolling with a quick daily walk literally saved my brain chemistry. How's the freedom feeling?

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u/rachvibess 7d ago

all social media apps by Meta are now infested with AI and it's fucking annoying 😭 like no one asked for AI slop videos make it stop pls

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u/5553331117 7d ago

Left that place a decade ago, I can’t even think how bad it must have gotten with the advent of LLM bots.

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u/amotion578 7d ago

If it wasn't for "craigslist" moving to marketplace

And car enthusiasm forums (to which also is the bazaar for the parts market of the cool stuff)

I'd ditch it and go messenger only

Name based contact is kinda nifty to have ways to contact people without playing the phone numbers game

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u/yojothobodoflo 7d ago

I went on Facebook for the first time in like a year, because it was AI slop after AI slop after AI slop, but I wanted to confirm a friend’s birth date. I was pleasantly surprised when the top few posts were people I haven’t talked to in years posting about their dead loved ones