Quote: (11-29-2018 11:07 PM)Off The Reservation Wrote:
If you are deleting or reducing use of social media 2019 and beyond please post your plans here with specifics.
Whether your reasons are to boycot the censorship machine, personal reasons or other, please describe/ post. Follow up w/ results.
Thanks to Conscious Pirate for the below link which is worth watching to the end.
My Plan:
Massively reduce social media use and messaging and so cut down distractions, brain washing, lack of concentration power.
1. Get rid of Smart phone. Move to cheap plastic ring and SMS phone. (Done.)
2. Move into new house with No Internet installed.(Done) I have a pretty solitary life which leads to living on Social Media as compensation and now it feels so good to go back there and just chill out without going down the Youtube, Facebook rabbit hole.
2. De-activate Facebook account. Set up burner account with no friends (Done) as a messenger account only.
3. Will buy a new Smart phone to keep at work with limited apps. I live in provincial Vietnam and without using google translate in business/ with my landlord, messenger and Zalo to stay in touch with work then I will get into trouble.
WhatsApp, Snapchat, Line will stay Verboten.
Keep smart phone at work or if I have to, I have an honesty jar in the hall of my house I put things in when I get home.
Will use Zalo etc at home only if I get a girlfriend and to communicate with her, otherwise no.
Early days but I can see how much time I normally waste going off on distractive internet tangents.
I feel for the women I see around me I see constantly hunched over and slaves to their little phones. My brain stem is no different and I get just as addicted.
Hoping that this will free me up to get closer to my goals.