How and Why You Should Cut Your Social Media Usage
In the past year or so, I’ve become increasingly convinced that much of the time spent on the internet and on social media is bad both for me personally, and for many people in developed countries. The reasons, roughly in order of how important they were in convincing me, are:
I just feel happier when I go out without a smartphone or a laptop, knowing that I will read a book or talk to my friends without being distracted. The fact that the phone/laptop is not available to me calms my mind, there isn’t some lingering impulse to check and check and check again.
My friends have told me that I seem happier when I’m out of the house without my phone or a computer.
After replacing my iPhone with a Duoqin F21 Pro, I spend much less time doing things that are a waste of time. I thought there was a reasonable chance that I just ended up spending that time doing something else pointless, but mostly it does get spent reading or doing something productive.
Note: the F21 Pro lets you use Google Maps, …
