Real talk, I’m spending about four hours a day on my phone. Four hours!
I’ve known for a while that my phone usage is high. Me and everyone else on the planet. I have been trying to temper my phone usage over the past six months or so. I booted my phone out of my bedroom, which has been great for my sleep quality and my ability to disconnect and go to bed. I also installed a tracking app before apple built it into the IOS so I could gain awareness of how I’m spending my time.
Even though, I knew. I didn’t need a tracker app to tell me that I was spending ridiculous amounts of time on Instagram.
This last weekend, while watching the Superbowl, I realized how deep the Instagram (and Facebook to a degree) addiction is running. I literally kept refreshing, refreshing, refreshing even though I knew there was nothing interesting there. To be honest, it’s been quite a while since I’ve been interested or excited by what I’m finding on social media. Most of the time, I’m feeling less inspired and more bored and over the fakeness of it all. I keep searching for new accounts to follow and unfollowing people that no longer inspire me, but I still can’t find that excitement and interest I used to have.
I just need a break. Like, a real legit and long break. I want to read more books and blogs and websites that have information that interests me that requires more than the attention span of a fly. I don’t want to spend my time in the performative rabbit hole of social media. I just need a moment to breathe.
So, impulsively, I deleted FB and Instagram from my phone on Sunday. Instagram is still on my work phone, but I haven’t been looking much and I intend to delete it there, too. And I feel better, if I little bit lost. It’s like I don’t know how to even be still and okay in a down moment. I instinctively reach for my phone. My brain is literally wired to that phone and it’s a bit scary.
I don’t know how long I’ll be away. It’s not lost on me that I am writing this post and that I rely on my social media to drive interest in my blog. I’m not sure how all of this is logical, but at the same time it’s the only logical thing I can think of doing to get a piece of my sanity back.
How do you feel about social media? I obviously have a love/hate relationship. Would you want to do a social media detox along with me?? You’re welcome to join!
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