A lot of people in this thread are expressing that their main use case for using any social network is to follow experts in their field.
Allow me to improve your life by freeing up massive amounts of time.
For any given field, say AI or programming, find the best weekly newsletter. Subscribe to a few of them, read them for a few weeks, and cut them down to the smallest number possible.
Anything of any importance in the field will be in that newsletter. Designate a fixed moment in your weekly schedule to read/skim them and be done with it. You can now delete the social media app.
I used to spent 2 hours per day "following tech news" and such. It's mostly noise and you'll be tempted to hang around and hate-read the social outrage of the day.
Somebody has sifted through all that garbage for you and put the gems in a newsletter, for free. Make use of it.
Allow me to improve your life by freeing up massive amounts of time.
For any given field, say AI or programming, find the best weekly newsletter. Subscribe to a few of them, read them for a few weeks, and cut them down to the smallest number possible.
Anything of any importance in the field will be in that newsletter. Designate a fixed moment in your weekly schedule to read/skim them and be done with it. You can now delete the social media app.
I used to spent 2 hours per day "following tech news" and such. It's mostly noise and you'll be tempted to hang around and hate-read the social outrage of the day.
Somebody has sifted through all that garbage for you and put the gems in a newsletter, for free. Make use of it.