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退出社交媒体，你的事业可能更有保障
Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
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这是《纽约时报》2016 年刊发的观点文章，作者（深度工作理念的提出者 Cal Newport）主张社交媒体会削弱人在复杂经济中越来越值钱的核心能力——长时间不受干扰地专注，因此建议为了职业发展戒掉社交媒体。文章两次登上 HN 首页，引发关于专注力、成瘾设计与社交媒体真实价值的长期讨论。
为什么经久不衰：它提出的“专注力是稀缺资产、社交媒体被刻意设计成成瘾”的论断，在算法推送时代反而愈发切中要害，至今仍是讨论数字极简与深度工作的经典起点。
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社交媒体削弱专注力，但与其彻底戒断不如提高使用门槛、改变使用方式
文章里最触动我的是这段：在越来越复杂的经济中，能不受干扰地专注完成困难任务正变得越来越有价值，而社交媒体因为被刻意设计成成瘾性的，恰恰削弱这种能力——用得越久，大脑越学会一感到无聊就渴望快速刺激。我最近很难专注工作，觉得这可能就是原因：我会强迫性地打开 Twitter 和 Tumblr 刷很久，最后发现根本没什么有趣的内容。我认为解决办法不是彻底删号，而是改变使用方式，比如删掉原生 App 只用网页版，提高使用门槛。至于 Facebook，我几个月前删了，生活质量立刻提升。
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This part really resonated with me: > Consider that the ability to concentrate without distraction on hard tasks is becoming increasingly valuable in an increasingly complicated economy. Social media weakens this skill because it’s engineered to be addictive. The more you use social media in the way it’s designed to be used — persistently throughout your waking hours — the more your brain learns to crave a quick hit of stimulus at the slightest hint of boredom. I've recently been finding it really hard to concentrate on my work and I genuinely think this might be the reason. I find myself compulsively opening twitter and tumblr and scrolling through for ages before realising that literally none of it is interesting. I'm just scrolling past brightly coloured images and auto-playing videos while completely distracted and detached from the real world. I agree with the sentiment elsewhere in these comments that the solution isn't to completely delete your accounts (I think they can have some value when used in moderation), but rather to change the way I use them. Maybe deleting the native apps and using the webapps will raise the barrier to entry high enough that I'll only use them when there's actually something I want to do on them. As for Facebook, I deleted that a few months ago and my quality of life instantly increased.
社交媒体的多巴胺成瘾机制是刻意设计的，对心理健康危害更大
更重要的是社交媒体有害心理健康。它和新闻、故意让人无聊的手机游戏一样，以类似方式刺激大脑，造成多巴胺失调进而产生依赖。想想找不到手机时的焦虑吧。我曾从事用户参与度优化工作，成瘾性是这套流程的自然产物：如果社交媒体真能满足你的欲望，你会用得更少——所以它们要故意藏起你的“钥匙”。现代低信息量的新闻尤其糟糕，是大脑的垃圾食品，只给人“知情”的错觉。我为此戒掉了 Facebook 和 Google。
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More importantly social media is bad for your mental health. It hits the brain in many of the same ways as the 'news' and those intentionally boring phone games. It causes dopamine dysregulation which leads to a dependency. Consider the anxiety you feel if you need to go to the bathroom and cannot find your phone. This dopamine dysregulation destroys your mood and motivation. Being social is a good thing. However companies have figured out they need addictive properties in order to be successful. I previously worked on optimizing companies for user engagement and the addictive properties naturally fall out of the process. If social media satiates your desires you will actually use them less. Think about it; why are your keys always in the last place you look? Because once you find them you stop looking. If you want to keep people on your site you hide their keys. People love a challenge and will be even happier when they find them. It's particularly bad with modern (low information) news media. I'm a compulsive news junkie* so I have to avoid the news in order to get anything done. I quit facebook and google over their insistence on pushing 'news'. It's junk food for the brain. It's low information and only gives an illusion of being informed. E.g. the recent election. * Note: I consider HN to be social 'media' news and I am aware that I'm here 'chipping'. I do so intentionally in effort to avoid fettishising vices. Plus HN is as close as I get to an online group of peers. I only use HN after self-flagellating while repeatedly muttering "the flesh is weak".
用周刊月刊替代每日新闻和社交媒体，信息不缺、分心更少
为什么只针对社交媒体？我做了多年新闻瘾君子后决定不仅戒掉社交媒体，也戒掉每日新闻网站，改读周刊（《经济学人》《纽约客》）和更慢的媒体（《外交事务》等）。这是个有趣的实验：大多数“新闻”只是下个周期就会被遗忘的琐碎内容，而周刊月刊因为必须筛选选题，能过滤掉水分，给我更好的视角。我发现该知道的还是知道，分心少了很多，还有更多时间读书。
noir-york查看英文原文
Why social media only? After being a news addict for years, I've decided to not only limit my social media posts (and reading) down to zero, but also the amount of time I spend on the daily news sites (NYT, Guardian, Politico etc). Instead I read media that operates on a longer cycles like weekly (Economist, NewYorker) and longer (Foreign Affairs, Private Eye) Its been an interesting experiment: most "news" is just content that is ultimately inconsequential, discussing ephemeral events that will be forgotten by the next news cycle. However, the weeklies and the monthlies, because they have to edit what they write about, do a great job of filtering out the fluff and giving me a better perspective of what mattered that week/month. I've found I still know what I need to know, suffer much less distractions, and more time to read books (amazing invention btw!)
反方观点：社交媒体可以健康使用，问题在于个人自控而非工具本身
难道只有我和社交媒体关系健康吗？我用 Twitter 关注有趣的名人和行业人士，用 Facebook 和全国各地的朋友保持联系、给父亲分享近况、策划聚会和旅行。我从不担心雇主看到我的社交媒体——我不会在公开场合做的事，也不会发到网上。总听人说戒掉 Facebook 后“快乐多了”，你们的 Facebook 上到底发生了什么让你们不快乐？
RandallBrown查看英文原文
Am I the only person that has a healthy relationship with social media? I use Twitter to follow interesting celebrities and industry professionals. (Adam Savage Mythbusters fame, pro climber Alex Honnold, several notable iOS programmers). I rarely interact with any of them, but I find out about lots of interesting things. I use Facebook to keep in touch with friends around the country. I can keep my dad updated to what I've been doing without having to call him. (I still call him, but we can talk about the pictures and things we've seen over the last week or so.) I plan vacations and events with friends. Next weekend I'm going to a bachelor party in the Adirondacks with people from around the country. I've never been worried about my employer seeing my social media profiles. If I wouldn't do something in public, I wouldn't post it to social media. Maybe I'm unique in being able to restrain myself. I always hear stories about how people are "so much happier" after they quit Facebook. What is happening on your Facebook that's making you unhappy?
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