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intense122 | 3 years ago | on: Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring

I wish they improve products for users. For example, IG on my newest smartphone is the only app which totally freezes on ads stories. You have 80k employees but simple slider in IG desktop version can't keep its position if you close story. Why, it's just a few lines of code. Rather not mentioning content on FB, it was so much better 10 years ago.

intense122 | 3 years ago | on: Caffeine and Exercise Performance

Agree. If I want some energy boost I drink matcha, sencha.. green teas. Looks like it kicks off faster than coffee for me, but depends, for example matcha seems a bit harder for gut when drinking before workout. Some of them could be helpful for fat burning also combined with zone 2 but I am not sure, wasn't reading about this.

intense122 | 3 years ago | on: Is this the end of social networking?

I miss how it's not more about connecting me with other people. Rather forcing people content they could engage. UX which main purpose is to keep users spend more time on the platform. For example, I love Strava, there are similar-minded people sharing their photos, activities that I can easily follow and get new ideas for trips and so on. Chronological feed without any special algorithm. Like hey, give me good search options and I can search content for my own.

intense122 | 3 years ago | on: Is this the end of social networking?

I wouldn't even mind if there were some ads on Strava. Like I've started subscribing with intention to support also this platform. I really like how there are similar-minded people, sharing their activities - photos, I can relax visiting this app. I think Strava will grow, so many features they can add for outdoors activities and so on. No politics, toxic content, great experience.

On the other side, there are social apps which just want me to spend as much time as I can there.

intense122 | 3 years ago | on: Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious

I visit small Reddit subreddit which is really well-moderated, good sources, I really like it. In spite of, cannot be compared with casual Facebook group.

For example, I've created some fancy FB group when people can join and after I logged in after a month, it had almost 1 000 submissions waiting for approval. So i set this to auto submissions. I came back and was horrified with the content.

Images of naked people which were breaking so many rules and had so many views before Facebook deleted it. What's the worse, I had to see it because of admin privilege. Thanks Mark. Fake accounts posting IBAN codes, sharing ads and other things. At the end, my group was penalized (not banned). Like, the biggest gigantic superb tech company can't even detect a nude stuff from fake accounts?

intense122 | 3 years ago | on: Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious

I took 1+ month break from Facebook and after I got back to check some groups, I totally forget to visit this social site so often. Like at the end of day, I remind myself that I wasn't there and still not missing anything. I was tired of bad news and angry comments.

There must be really some dopamine effect about these things. Like person is bored so you scroll 100 posts which fulfils your desire and after some time when your levels drop, you come back making this something like habit. Similar to drinking coffee, a lot of people complain about headache if they don't drink right amount of coffee they are used to every day.