# I Used to Fear Being a Nobody. Then I Left Social Media. - The New York Times

<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/opinion/quit-social-media.html>

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## What Jamie wrote

There is a lot of social fatigue out there.

> I grow weary when I think of this as the new normal for what is considered to be a fruitful personal life. Social media is no longer a mere public extension of our private socialization; it has become a replacement for it.

I suspect that is part of that fatigue.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT120: Weekly Thing #120 / Oct 5, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/120/), Notable Links 📌

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