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You start to register how much time you reach for something thats not there. Suddenly, folding laundry turned to Solace, and open windows while taking in a movie felt so wonderful.
You cant make something new if your influences are all coming from 3 homogeneous websites. Break FREE
Jun 18, 2024
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Long story short, don't stress yourself when it comes to quitting social media especially cold turkey but what you can do is that implicitly quit social media.
You might ask how is that even possible ? and why you need social media ?
what you can do is, create other accounts for your social media, a kind of "alter ego" social media where you can express your true self when it comes to what you wanna do and achieve as personal goals.
What i would do to achieve that :
1. log out or deactivate your actual accounts.
2. create the alter ego accounts
Now the important part is what follows :
3. Immerse yourself in your interest :
You wanna read more ? download ebook and use your phone as a digital book
You wanna sleep well ? make your phone GREY (activate the greyscale on your phone to make it boring - schedule it for the evening)
You wanna learn a new hobby ? here comes your alter ego social media, where you will use the algorithm for your own good, where you will search and interact only with what you are interested in !
You wanna avoid scrolling and walk more, work out more, etc.. ? use a permanent focus MODE where the home screen is empty and only have one of your music players, hide the rest of the apps, make that phone a digital music player only.
you want study tips ? use youtube for your benefits, and only use it in navigator mode, never the app.
slowly but surely you will start getting bored of your phone and then quitting the usage of that device will be more easy and relevant and soon you will find yourself barely touching it.
4. detaching from your phone : you will soon be picking a book rather than your ebooks because it's more healthy for your eyes, using your study tips with music in the background (here is where you will be using your phone as a music player only again) etc...
Jan 21, 2025
i have been on a journey to untangle my tasks from my iPhone.
i'd be out in the world someplace, pull out my phone for something as menial as checking the time, or as well intentioned as capturing the moment in a pic, and immediately get sucked into texts and instagram™️ and all the virtual things happening in this tiny lil demon light box.
the goal: pull my phone out of my bag ONLY for phone things. that's texting, calling, and apps that can't be replaced
the solutions so far:
🕰️ i started with a watch (shoutout Casio) and i wear it every day. once I broke the habit of checking my phone for the time, I felt legitimately freed from something Major
📷 I bought a small digital camera to leave in my bag. the pics look better and I don’t get distracted by the virtual world when I'm trying to capture something in the now
📚 I bought a kindle. It fits in my jacket pocket (literally) and gives me something to do when I'm on the train or waiting for an appointment that isn't scrolling
I just realized so much of the time I spent on my phone was not intentional. It was a thing I was doing in between Other intentional moments. my screen time is still several hours a day (don’t get me wrong) but I think my brain has healed at least 3%.
welcoming other ideas as well💡
Sep 24, 2024
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I’ve already read 48 books in 2025 while being on my flip phone, social media detox life. Yes, some of them were just trashy romance, but still. It’s been so nice to get back into reading for enjoyment again. It’s nice to be out and about and not have that constant urge to reach for a phone and check notifications.
I don’t even have most social media apps downloaded on this anymore, I love this app though, and the urge to click on an app and doom-scroll is nonexistent. This brick of technology has really turned into my iPod and Kindle, and the occasional pop back on here.
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easily one the most overlooked and powerful flicks of the 00s, BIRTH is mystical, haunting and all around hard to Digest, but difficult has never looked so beautiful. Kidmans best performance too. Currently part of THREE by Jonathan Glazier on Criterion.
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Quite potentially (hopefully not) the last great smartphone size. As powerful as any other model on the market with the best hand feel. I’ll use this bad boy til its out of service.
Feb 18, 2024
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the selection feels like when Netflix first came to streaming. Its the type of movies you’d watch alone at a friends when everyone else has passed out. The ultimate streaming app.
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