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Not just social media, force yourself to use technology as a tool. no news scrolling. take email off your phone. No TV! break your wordle streak! buy a crossword book instead and give your eyes a little rest 😴
then come back to only the things that make your life better and set strict app limits on everything else!!
Mar 23, 2025
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i was on holiday and barely checked my phone for three weeks. highly recommend. good for the soul. a reminder that social media is not real life and 90% of it is marketing anyway. your friends will be fine if you don’t watch their stories every single day. go outside. touch grass. smell the flowers. go for a swim.
Aug 5, 2024
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I like to let my phone die— I often don’t charge it overnight, and try not to plug it in during the day. If you’re able to access work/school through only your laptop, let your phone die, or leave it on the plug in another room.
I also delete most apps from my phone for periods of weeks, and minimally use social media— if this works for you, it can feel very liberating, and makes me feel much less constantly accessible (which I think is a good thing).
Something that helps me is thinking about the flattening of correspondence; before social media, if you wanted to communicate to a friend, it was one-on-one— you might write a letter, or call, or email, but what you were doing was conversational and relational. When we use social media, we flatten a lot of individual relationships into one relationship between us and our “audience.” Instead of sharing a thought or comment intended for one person, and designed for them to reply and continue the correspondence, we put out press releases on our own lives: “this is what I had for breakfast,” “this is a meme about my mental health,” and we become part of a passive audience in our friend’s lives. We end up feeling like we’ve just seen our friends, because we’re “viewing” their lives, but actually apps leave us feeling very isolated and anti-social. Try deleting your most used social media apps, and also schedule a walk/movie night/coffee with a friend.
Outside of radical deletion, pick an audio book to listen to, and pair it with a hands on/tactile activity: you could load the dishwasher, or draw, or try embroidery.
Jul 29, 2024
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crazy talk from me, idc. i've been slowly weening off my social media consumption, but it's not been enough!! some things i've done to combat it have helped slightly, but i realize the only way to really get free of it is just cut it.
i've seen a lot of people talking about "dumbing down" their phones/tech to only house the essentials. there are apps for iOS and Android that make things like that possible. also like.. i think they make dumb phones from factory, but i'll have to dig deeper for that.
it's gonna be painful the first period of time, but it's worth it. even the little bit i've done has cut some really strong ties to my phone. i really depend only on apps that have messaging (discord, iMessage, FB messenger [not as much]). However, sometimes i get sucked down a rabbit hole if i get sidetracked.
i see a lot of people comparing doomscrolling to an addiction and they couldn't be more right. bc it is an addiction. it's a trap. only way to really get out of it is to shut it off completely.
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i had NO idea people were still on this????? just relinked my spotify and I guess I'll see where this goes???
only sharing this bc this app is still small enough but I have no idea what this is going to tell you about me 🥴. I'm a lil sad we've missed out on 14 years of data but onwards and upwards!
Jan 29, 2024
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Everyone do it now
Jan 28, 2024
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Just do nice things for your friends bc you love them and have the means/time/connections/etc to do so!
May 24, 2024