So much yes. I deleted The Apps off my phone over 2 months ago, after you shared that video about replacing scrolling with micro journaling. I haven’t kept up the micro journaling, but I have kept up the no scrolling. I think it was perfect timing for where I’m at mentally/emotionally bc my previous attempts to kick the habit did not work at all. My life is sooooo much better with this shift! I feel like my time and consciousness are fully my own, after many years of that not being the case. I hope I never go back. Thank you for speaking & spreading the good word.
A few years ago I suggested to friends, to Facebook friends, that as protests against Facebook and Instagram's inbuilt sexism (most ism's) that we all deactivate it for a day. So more than just say we'd not use it, deactivate but not delete our accounts. More than just signing out as I'd hoped it might turn into a monthly thing and might grow - perhaps big enough that Facebook/IG might notice.
One day a month - a few hundred people sign up to the first day. I asked them all to share the event, get it growing... Many of them did it. Many said it was a weird day but liberating and they'd defo do it every month.
But nope - the numbers dropped to nothing over the next few months. A day off the scrolling, just once a month was not doable. We all knew we'd miss too much.
Facebook and Instagram now actively bore me, but I still check in continually.
One big, big issue for artists is that IG is so dominant and the best sign post to our websites that, otherwise, we not get spotted. A good IG post of one of my images get interest from 2 clicks a day to thousands... But it tails off as, unlike IG, there's no interaction, no scrolling.
As always your writing reaches out, taps a finger on my forehead and says “hey, look up, you’re not the only one here”. And I’m so grateful for it
There is so much time. Oof. This was a necessary read for me this week. There's a lot to think about here (hopefully unrushed, away from screens).
this is perfect. hope everyone reads it
Really not sure I've ever read anything which better captures how social media is simultaneously draining and overwhelming us.
So much yes. I deleted The Apps off my phone over 2 months ago, after you shared that video about replacing scrolling with micro journaling. I haven’t kept up the micro journaling, but I have kept up the no scrolling. I think it was perfect timing for where I’m at mentally/emotionally bc my previous attempts to kick the habit did not work at all. My life is sooooo much better with this shift! I feel like my time and consciousness are fully my own, after many years of that not being the case. I hope I never go back. Thank you for speaking & spreading the good word.
absolutely love this
“The feed of any social media app is a dissociation factory. It pulls you out of your body and plugs you into a purely cerebral world.” Yasssssss
A few years ago I suggested to friends, to Facebook friends, that as protests against Facebook and Instagram's inbuilt sexism (most ism's) that we all deactivate it for a day. So more than just say we'd not use it, deactivate but not delete our accounts. More than just signing out as I'd hoped it might turn into a monthly thing and might grow - perhaps big enough that Facebook/IG might notice.
One day a month - a few hundred people sign up to the first day. I asked them all to share the event, get it growing... Many of them did it. Many said it was a weird day but liberating and they'd defo do it every month.
But nope - the numbers dropped to nothing over the next few months. A day off the scrolling, just once a month was not doable. We all knew we'd miss too much.
Facebook and Instagram now actively bore me, but I still check in continually.
One big, big issue for artists is that IG is so dominant and the best sign post to our websites that, otherwise, we not get spotted. A good IG post of one of my images get interest from 2 clicks a day to thousands... But it tails off as, unlike IG, there's no interaction, no scrolling.
Thank you for the beautiful articulation of such a gnarly and complex topic!