Just as a food detox involves taking a break from eating particular food groups, so a social media detox involves taking a break from social media. For most people, a social media detox is healthy. It allows you to reevaluate your priorities, focus freshly on what matters most, and clear your brain from digital clutter. There is a third way to use social media — a hybrid between totally quitting social media and just doing a detox. You can use social media moderately and intentionally, relying on tools like Freedom to help you take shorter breaks from it.
This has advantages of both of the above options. Your values will help you determine the best way to use social media in a moderate fashion. For example, say that one of your values is spending time with family.
Using a tool like Freedom, you can block social media during specific times and then spend that time with your family. Your attention will go back where it belongs: to your family. By blocking social media during those hours, you eliminate the temptation to skim Reddit or watch a YouTube video.
The advantage of using social media moderately is that you can focus on doing the things that matter most to you while still getting to use social media at times. So how can you use Freedom to moderate your social media usage? There are several ways you can use it depending on what you want to accomplish. During these times, you may want to block the entire internet.
To block the internet, simply go to your dashboard and check All Websites in the Block these distractions , section. Select how long you want your session to last, check the box beside All Websites , click Start , and then get to work.
There are other times when you need to access the internet but want to block social media. To do this, you just need to create a blocklist that contains all the sites you want to block. You can also use Freedom to create a digital detox for yourself.
Select Start Late r, then select when you want your session to start and when you want it to end. You can schedule up to a hour window this way. So figure out what your goals are—and those goals can be small or silly, like laughing at memes or feeling marginally connected to other people while you live alone or to, yes, get little buzzes of validation when someone likes your post. SELF does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Any information published on this website or by this brand is not intended as a substitute for medical advice, and you should not take any action before consulting with a healthcare professional. Narrow down which social media apps you use. Turn off push notifications. Follow a bunch of new accounts too.
Set smaller boundaries around use. In general, just aim to be more intentional. She's the author of the book The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care and can be found writing around the internet about mental, emotional, and sexual health. Most importantly, she's also a Virgo sun, Aquarius moon, Read more. Topics social media mental health anxiety stress depression.
I would be the last person to say we need a board of censors to eliminate the things I find bothersome. So how about we just focus on items 1 and 2 and in regard to 3 thru 5 wake up in the morning grab that cup of coffee, share a smile with a friend and talk about the good things in life! Laura clicks through to the profile. Even us laypeople people may find our social media accounts being watched by secret frenemies.
Both Laura and Thomas admit that this behaviour stems partly from jealousy. According to psychotherapist Sally Baker , we get a buzz from this curious behaviour, because the emotions of hate and love in the brain are inextricably linked.
The feel-good hormones are released when you are emotionally involved with someone — regardless of the motivation, and results in this enflamed, emotional response. A study into human behaviour by Professor Semir Zeki confirms that the same nervous circuits in the brain that are activated in relation to hate are also triggered when an individual is in love, which goes a way to explaining the obsessive behaviours some hate followers tend to develop.
This negative cycle may have been more appealing in lockdown, as we found ourselves suddenly locked in our homes with only our screens for company. According to a GlobalWebIndex survey, July saw a rise of As well as becoming an indispensable form of long distance communication, social media became a primary source of entertainment during lockdown — as exemplified by the sudden popularity in TikTok last year the app was downloaded million times in the first quarter of Idle scrolling was how many of us disconnected from our everyday routine and passed the time.
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