Sentient Scrolling: Uncoiling Internet & Phone Addiction
A three month intensive
Sentient Scrolling: Uncoiling Internet & Phone Addiction
A Three Month Intensive to support reducing and/or eliminating social media and phone addiction
January 16th-April 13th
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
It feels appropriate that I am announcing this intensive two days after Meta said they will be prioritizing AI generated profiles in order to generate engagement on their social media websites, which include Instagram, Threads and Facebook. If this happens, I’ll be leaving those platforms.
I’ve written a lot in this newsletter about my relationship with social media. A little over a year ago I quit social media altogether— I wrote about that here:
A Permanent Goodbye to Social Media
A quick note: to those of you who showed up to Inspiration Station only to find no one there, I’m sorry! I cancelled via chat, but forgot to toggle the “send as email” button, as I usually do. I am currently reassessing Inspiration Station in the midst of a super-high workload and will be sending out a mid-week survey, so please look out for that.
But, as it always does, social media sucked me back in, which I wrote about here:
Tik Tok Soul Suck
I’ve written a lot about social media. Last year I wrote this piece about permanently saying goodbye to my social media accounts:
Although I returned to social media, the long hiatus (one of many I’ve taken over the past seven years) changed my relationship to social media and my phone in many positive ways.
There’s a lot of solid research about how our phones and social media can negatively affect our li…
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