✦Wellbeing · 14 recordsSocial media detox

Deleting everything forever lasts about a weekend. This picks the apps that take the most time for the least return, removes them for thirty days while keeping the genuinely useful parts like group chats, replaces the habit with something specific, and ends with a deliberate decision about what, if anything, comes back.

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Goal

Thirty days off the feeds, and a decision about what comes back Week 5

The useful parts kept, the rest removed, the time used on purpose.

Set it up Day 5

Which apps go, what stays, and what replaces the habit.

  • Check screen time and list the apps that take the mostDo firstDay 1
  • Decide what stays: messaging, events, workDo firstDay 2
  • Delete the feed apps from my phone and log out on the laptopDo firstDay 3
  • Tell the few people who matter how to reach meDay 4
  • Choose what I do instead in the usual scrolling momentsDo firstDay 4

Thirty days and a decision Week 5

Noticed as it goes, decided at the end.

  • Write down how the first week feelsDay 8
  • Halfway note: what am I missing, and what not?Week 2
  • Decide which apps come back, and on what termsDo firstWeek 4

Routines

  • No feeds todaydaily
  • The replacement habitdaily
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What comes back, and on what terms

At the end of the thirty days, decide app by app: back as it was, back with limits, or gone.

Limits that tend to hold: the app on a laptop only, not the phone; one set time a day; notifications off; the phone charging outside the bedroom.

✦ Questions

Social media detox, answered.

Thirty days is long enough for the urge to check to fade and short enough to commit to. A weekend mostly produces a catch-up session on Monday, and a permanent ban tends to break the first time something genuinely needs an app.
Keep the parts that do a job: messaging groups, event invitations, work accounts. Remove the feeds. Telling the few people who matter how to reach you removes most of the worry about missing out.
Decide in advance, because an empty gap gets filled by another app. The plan asks for a specific replacement for the moments you usually scroll, like a book by the bed or a walk after lunch.
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