1 Week Without Social Media | What Now?

So in this video, I’ll tell you how I reduced my screen time by nearly 50%, why I quit social media and the most important part of this video is what I replaced my free time with. That’s super important because it makes no sense to quit social media and replace it with Netflix. You’re just basically replacing one evil for another evil.

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1. All the things I tried.
– I tried to uninstall social media during the week and reinstall on the weekends
– I tried to buy a small phone with less battery life ( iPhone 13 mini )
– I tried using my iPhone screen time feature to help me manage it by setting time limits
– I tried using my phone in black and white

Here are the results:
– I would stick to uninstalling process but shortly after just stop uninstalling
– I used my small phone the same, just as much, and just charged it more often
– I just overwritten every single time
– I just took it off

The problem with these techniques is this:
– They are too easy to override and the person with the problem is the same person with the control
– Would you let a with a food addiction, handle his own food intake
– It’s ridiculous but that’s exactly what these techniques basically do

2. What actually worked for me
– Once understood this, it changed everything
– Online it says that social media is designed to connect friends and family and keep them in touch
– I use WhatsApp to do that, not Instagram and Facebook, lets be honest ( most of us are on the Explore page )
– And that is not how they make money, just by you trying to connect with your family
– They want you on social media scroll for as long as possible

Here are some things they did to make it addictive
– Infinite scroll ( it never ends and it has more new stuff )
– Like and comments ( feedback is dopamine triggering )
– Color (when have you used social media without nice colors )

What actually worked for me then:
– Once I understood what it was designed for
– I relaxed the only I could manage to escape it, was by quitting cold turkey
– And that basically means, uninstalling it completely and I only use it when I’m looking for pictures of a restaurant or a friend asks me to check something out ( but even then, I just go on Safari and I don’t install the app on my phone )

3. Results
– At first, the results were not that great, they actually sucked
– Because I just replaced social media scrolling and meme forwarding.
– With YouTube and watching a lot of content

So my next step was simple:
– Uninstall media apps and only have them for the most part on my iPad
– My phone use went from almost 8 hours to less than 4 hours on average.

The good:
– When I’m on Netflix it is because I want to be
– When I’m on my phone its usually text and talking to friends
– Or looking for some information

When do I use social media;
– If I’m looking for an apartment
– If I need pictures for a restaurant
– You know normal stuff not consuming for no reason

Lastly: resist the temptation of saying you need social media, you don’t.

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