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Open Thread: Your tips for quitting or cutting down on social media

A number of Facebook controversies have put the focus on screen time once more.

FACEBOOK IS UNDER increasing scrutiny over revelations made by a whistleblower and an outage that affected billions of people

The company is the most-used social media website in the world, with over 2.8 billion active users. Instagram and WhatsApp, which are also owned by Facebook, combined also have about 2.3 billion active users. 

Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, there was a movement urging people to either quit or cut back on their social media usage. Three years later, is there anything you’ve learnt about how to cut back on social media? 

We asked a couple of our reporters for their tips, among the ideas were: 

  • Simple, just delete the apps.
  • Saving that, remove the apps from your phone’s home screen.
  • Put your phone on greyscale mode, it makes you queasy to look at it for too long
  • Download a timer app that tells you how long you’ve been staring

In the comments below, tell us a bit about your social media usage and let us know if you have any tips for people about cutting down.

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