using social media to a minimum
(This is a more personal continuation of Do you ever stop?, though reading it first is not required for this one)
I’m gonna be blunt, I’m barely gonna use social media going forward, the only times I’ll use it will be whenever I post new Art, and I got 3 main ways in which I’m gonna achieve this:
First off, I’ve uninstalled all social media apps I have in my phone, Bluesky, Wafrn, Tumblr, Tiktok, you name it, and although I can’t delete YouTube from my phone because Google says so (damn you Android), I’ve disabled it instead.
Second, whenever I get a desire to do something that would be related to them, I’m gonna do something else: Do I wanna see what everyone’s talking about? I’ll go to the messaging apps, do I want to see the news? RSS Feeds, do I wanna entertain myself? I’ll use the good old TV, play a videogame, or read a book, I don’t know what I wanna do but I still wanna do something? I’ll go do something like a walk instead (Just like I did before finishing writing this up.)
Third, in case I ever get tempted to go to social media, even with that, I’ll have to go through them with Librewolf on desktop and DuckDuckGo on mobile instead, former which is a Firefox fork focused on privacy, which among the features it has, it removes Firefox Sync and deletes both log-in and auto-fill data when closed, so every time I’ll open up the browser, if I wanna watch or check social media, I’ll have to go through that process time and time again, slowly removing that temptation. with DuckDuckGo in mobile because Librewolf doesn't have a mobile port and its the closest it gets.
Now that’s nice and all, but why, why am I doing all of this?
The answer is pretty easy, social media (for the most part) makes me depressed
It is very easy to get into them, but very hard to get out, and what was meant to be a simple scroll by turns into hours of my life wasted scrolling through, add to that some of the world news, which I mean, it’s good to know about them and be aware, don’t get me wrong! But when every 2 to 3 posts you see something awful that’s happening out there, something in another place where you can’t directly help, it fills me with dread, add to that the fact I also live in another country where a lot of bad shit happens, and I just don’t wanna keep torturing myself even more from this feeling of constant sorrow.
I don’t want to keep being depressed.
Also, before I’ve tried to do something like this (I even wrote about it once if I recall correctly) but I always relapsed back into my habits, so I wanna enforce that change as much as I can, even if it’s very sudden. Going easy about this made it very easy to go back to where I was, so I’m gonna go the hard way about it.
By the way, even if I said all of this, I’m not quitting social media, for the sole reason that I still post art online and that’s how I get going in life, my usage of it will just be very minimal, only checking notifications whenever I’m posting something new (like this blog!) and that’s it, I’ll only use these to post art, blog posts and whatever silly thought/update I have on my mind.
I wish I didn’t have to go to this point, but I didn’t really have any other choice by now.
Anyway, that’s all for now, I’ll see ya soon with another blogpost, bye!
- Anubi “I want a dumb phone” Arts.