I'm so glad you're loving being social media free! I went off social media for a year and wrote an essay about it for Orion mag. I write a weekly newsletter about digital life and all the complexities of navigating our digital/irl world. It's something I think about a lot and struggle with. At the moment, I'm fully on social media, although I deactivate my IG often. The main issue for me is my smartphone. I wish I could get rid of it... It's the thing that allows for the scrolling and I don't have the discipline that I wish I had.. thanks again for sharing your journey!
I basically quit social media (though I'd been off Twitter for years now) at the start of the pandemic since I couldn't work anyway (freelance MUA) and it's been glorious! I don't know how I'm ever going to go back though.
I'm so glad you're loving being social media free! I went off social media for a year and wrote an essay about it for Orion mag. I write a weekly newsletter about digital life and all the complexities of navigating our digital/irl world. It's something I think about a lot and struggle with. At the moment, I'm fully on social media, although I deactivate my IG often. The main issue for me is my smartphone. I wish I could get rid of it... It's the thing that allows for the scrolling and I don't have the discipline that I wish I had.. thanks again for sharing your journey!
Carmella, thanks so much for reading! I am going to dig around for your Orion piece. I have definitely been thinking of getting a Nokia...
I was late to the smartphone game. I had a flip phone until 2017. WhatsApp is what makes going back to flip phone seem impossible for me...
I basically quit social media (though I'd been off Twitter for years now) at the start of the pandemic since I couldn't work anyway (freelance MUA) and it's been glorious! I don't know how I'm ever going to go back though.
I don't know how I'll go back either!