6 Ways to Avoid Having to Deal with April Fools’ Day

3. Avoid Other Parts of the Internet

By “other parts of the Internet,” we basically mean Twitter. Yeah, we know, it’s fun to catch up with anything and everything, but with the newly-changed reply system (here’s Vox’s explainer on how it all works now; to make a long story short, it seems a bit wonky, like most changes to Twitter these days), you may want to just avoid things altogether until the storm of angry tweets about how the new reply system is horrible blows over.

Besides that, though, brands have already started promoting their April Fools’ Day jokes, and no one needs to see the same promoted tweet over and over and over again until they actually start to pull chuckles out of you. That’s when you know you’ve gone too far.

To turn to one of the other social media giants, Facebook itself seems relatively safe at this point, but don’t be surprised if your friends share some of the April Fools’ Day jokes that are proliferating across the Internet. Who needs to see the same article five separate times, especially when it’s not even true? Not you, avoider of April Fools’. Not you.

Depending on whom you follow, Snapchat and Tumblr may end up being the safest of them all, though it seems unwise to assume that there will be absolutely no references to what day it is. Log on or open the apps with caution.