i spent a week without mainstream social media

i stayed off tiktok, instagram, and twitter for an entire week.

and it was so refreshing.

i felt so free doom the doom scroll of these sites. only consuming long-form content such as tv shows and over half hour long yt vids. and ofc reading and writing blogs on here. i thought i wouldnt be able to do it, that i was too addicted to tiktok. but i did it. a full week. no checking notifications or dms, no posting, and ofc no scrolling. 

i genuinely feel better. it made me wanna decentralize my phone. like replacing my notes app with an actual notebook, i even turned a little notebook ive never used into a phone/address book for all of my contacts,   this week honestly made me want a flip phone and to delete all my apps and only use social media on my laptop.

if youre tired of social media i recommend taking a week off. i use the app Beeper (on ios and playstore) for my DMs. Its a really cool app and it lets me still talk to my friends who use instagram as their main way to text, without any distractions from the apps themselves!