My Month Without Social Media
ㅤFour weeks ago I watched that one Matt D’Avella video called “I quit social media for 30 days” and felt inspired that much I’ve decided to try it myself.
ㅤAt first it seamed impossible, to quit almost all I had for… what? But once you understand how social media influence your life, you understand, that it’s almost vital to have this detox. As for me, I spent a huge amount of time just surfing through that freaking explore page, was late quite often because I disappeared for the whole mornings in Twitter or just didn’t get enough sleep reading that aus till 5 am. So yeah, I thought I needed to change that.
ㅤFirst week was probably the hardest. I kept swiping through my phone looking for something, but there was almost nothing. To be honest, I did cheated a little - I returned to Tumblr, as I believed it didn’t bring that much harm. Although I was spending some time on Tumblr, it wasn’t as consuming as another apps at all! I looked through my tags or timeline, it took 10-15 minutes, one time it was 25, still not as much as hours I spent watching Instagram edits. Two times I looked through BTS’s Twitter, as I needed that selfies so bad! However, I didn’t fall in that hole, first time I used mobile browser, the other - desktop browser without logging in. Then, it became easier, I just get used to it.
ㅤOf course, there were some difficulties: sometimes I wanted to post a picture or story so bad, I considered giving everything up! I wanted to see some of my friends’ stories or look through some news and memes. Still, I don’t regret anything. I downloaded Google News for being in touch with the world and watched some memes videos time to time, so in the result I didn’t feel bad at all!
ㅤNow, as I’m going to return to Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, I don’t have that much desire to watch all those stories or see all those tweets. I just don’t. I’ll probably unfollow a lot of people too, as I realised I spent so much time caring about someone, who doesn’t bring anything good in my life. Also, I’m going to restrict me a little, still, cause I’m not sure I won’t go back again to that lie-in-bed-for-three-hours-with-my-phone state. Maybe some block apps will help me with that.
ㅤFinally, I’d encourage everyone to at least try. It can be day, week, month, it doesn’t matter. I just want you to feel that time you always had but never noticed.
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