You are an average of the 5 people you spend the most time around.

Do those people send you any blog links?

or solely vapid social media shite?

Note that. There’s overlap in other parts of life.

One person who texts me most often primarily sends vapid social media content. I disabled notifications on his texts and check them on my time, skipping most of them. I don't feel the need to cut someone out of my life who I've known for 20+ years over their instagram addiction (which seems to be what you're implying if I read between the lines).

The big AI push has made him more interested in what is happening with all these tech companies and he doesn't like it. I'm trying to use it nudge him off these platforms run by companies he claims to despise.

> I don't feel the need to cut someone out of my life who I've known for 20+ years over their instagram addiction

Then, bluntly, good luck fixing your own problem with the same.

How many decades will you nudge before realizing you’re yelling down a well?

These aren’t new concepts or tricks people are falling for.

Glad you’re not one of them ;)

Likewise; you seem pretty resistant to positive change, and that’s dangerous to me.