a guide to breaking up with social media
are you in a toxic relationship with your social network? do you close an app only to reopen it again - almost subconsciously? do you really want to call it quits? first you'll have to dissect your relationship to the machine. you can do this by asking yourself a few questions:
does the relationship between myself and my social platform feel equal?
do i recieve something in equal value to what is taken from me?
do i care that my behaviors will be monitored and my data may be harvested?
should i?
does using this platform bring me joy?
do i feel trapped?
do i struggle to look away from my phone when i use it?
would i be anxious to leave the house without my phone?
am i neglecting important parts of my life in favor of screen time?
do i feel like my life currently has meaning?
by answering these questions, you will be able to define the limits of what you are willing to give away freely and consider how enmeshed you wish to be with your technology. your answers may lead you to a place in which you realize you need to make a change. i know it did for me.
im happy to reassure you that there is life outside of social media and there are many people that feel the same way. there is a fear that comes with detaching from social media. there are stages of grief and there is relapse.
there is also a light at the other end of the tunnel if you care to see it.