Dear self: we need to talk about social media
I&#x27;ve never owned a smart phone, for fear of becoming addicted to it. It seems that was a well founded notion.  The two things I think they are useful for are Google Maps (for the Traffic, I know where I&#x27;m going), and getting phone numbers to place carry out orders.<p>I don&#x27;t constantly check email, I don&#x27;t have a stream of interruptions when I&#x27;m away from the computer.  Now all I have is the almost daily non-disable-able &quot;amber alerts&quot; that jar me out of my life, and the occasional junk call.<p>When I do consume sites, I try very hard to avoid letting their algorithm decide what I see.  With Facebook, for example you can append ?sk=h_chr to the site name, and it will show you thinks in reverse chronological order.  I use subscriptions on Youtube, and only use &quot;Home&quot; when I&#x27;m bored and want to veg. I curate my sources as best I can.