Social Media Blackout – Goodbye Facebook and Twitter

Social Media Blackout – It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Facebook and Twitter

 

Social Media Blackout is a thing that I have recently embraced and adopted as a way to take back my time and hopefully become a more productive human being.

Tweens and Teens are not the only ones addicted to social media. Adults, in my opinion, are just as addicted to social media. I used to justify my checking Facebook and Twitter because of my blog then I justified it because I wanted to keep up with the news or what was trending.

This justification is just an excuse, it’s just a bold face addiction. During the day, I would check Facebook and Twitter on my commute to work, in between meetings and at lunch. What a hot mess!

So what made me delete the Facebook app from my phone, a glitch. One day, it just froze and I couldn’t get off the page. This never happened and after a day of it being frozen, I just deleted the app.

Even before the glitch, I had been extremely frustrated by Facebook’s algorithm nonsense. The fact that I see the same 10 people over and over again. The fact that I  have to spend the first ten minutes hiding posts that I had already seen earlier in the day or the previous day made me realize how much of my life was being wasted cleaning up after Facebook! I also NEVER click on a sponsored post so I spent my precious time on this earth hiding ads.  Of course, I know that this is a futile effort and I am giving Facebook information about my spending habits that they sell!!

Finally, I do NOT get my news from Facebook’s trending stories, if anything I try NOT to look at that box. It’s annoying and I know it’s not real trending news, it’s their algorithm at work.

Then there is the fact that my friends post the same information I read the day before. It’s not their fault.  I keep up with the daily news so it’s just annoying to see people post a news story that in my mind is old news.   And don’t get me started that people post links from questionable news sources. Why Facebook does nothing about fake websites is a mystery to me. I am kidding, it’s not a mystery to me!

After a few days, I just didn’t miss Facebook so I decided to delete the Twitter app.  I kept Twitter because I liked the idea of checking the trending hashtags. I think we all know trending #hashtags are also not real. And I found myself reading people’s comments. More time wasted!!

It’s been over a week and I haven’t added either app back, but I will admit, I still instinctively check my phone.

Don’t get too excited by my blackout,  I do check Facebook and Twitter before and after work. Now, I am working on decreasing the time I spend while I am home.

And I still check Instagram because I like to look at pretty pictures! So much for a total Social Media Blackout.

Do you think you spend too much on social media? 

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