I started to set time limits and set times for my social media use in the run up to my month off. Get a head start before your social media detox starts. Not only will this inform the people in your life that you won’t be available digitally (you may want to add that you’ll still be available in person!), the fact that people know what you are doing will hold you accountable to see it through.Ģ. Share your intention to complete a digital detox with anyone who will listen. As you will see, it was a very informative month.ġ. And if I were going to promote the benefits of taking a break from social media to my clients and followers, surely I’d have to try it out myself to see how it went? And for those of you who know me well, it will come as no surprise to hear that I’m a big fan of a one-month challenge! So this blog post is about everything I learnt during my detox, in the hope that it may give you some tips and inspiration too. That said I still feel an strong desire to learn more about digital wellbeing. I have good boundaries already in place so I’m aware that I may have been in a completely different starting point to you if you’re considering trying out a social media detox for yourself. I’m not someone who ‘mindlessly scrolls’ very often now, although I certainly used to be. Switching off for a whole month felt scary – what would I miss out on? I value and appreciate my social media platforms. Connecting with people all over the world and spreading the joy of KonMari and organising is something I’m truly passionate about. And I want to be honest here, I LOVE using social media for my work. The other 10% is scrolling for inspiration. I follow about 100 people on Instagram (although most I have on ‘mute’ so I have a beautifully curated experience in line with who I want to talk to in real life and the accounts I’m inspired by).ĩ0% of my time spent on social media is for work. I deleted over 400 ‘friends’ and although I still have about 130 friends, I only follow 30 people (those I would actually text, call or see in real life). I completed a digital declutter following completion of my KonMari tidying journey. I changed my relationship with social media at that time. I woke up to the reality that Facebook was, in my opinion, a dangerous dark hole of comparison in my 30s when I had children. Was I really happy at that time? I was so busy with ‘life’ that I don’t think I knew what happiness actually was. I was also highlighting the best bits of my life to show how happy I was. Thinking back, all I was doing was comparing my life with theirs. To think of the hours I wasted scanning through ‘friend’ profiles in an effort to stay ‘connected’, commenting, liking, and trawling back through endless photo albums to discover more about the people I called ‘friends’. I’d go on nights out, take a tonne of photos before posting and tagging on Facebook, whilst awaiting my friends to ‘tag me in’ to their albums. Firstly, something you may not know about me was that I was pretty much hooked on Facebook in my 20s.
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