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Paola Barrera's avatar

All of this! I so resonated with you. I’ve had a complicated relationship with social media, particularly with IG, for a long time. I’ve fasted from social media every Sunday for the past ten years. I’m always refreshed come Monday. Then, as soon as I « ré-enter », I begin to feel the familiar anxiety. It creeps in slowly. But by mid week if I’m not careful I can find myself wasting precious time, attention, and energy scrolling. So this year I’m paying better attention. Using my iPhone’s features I limit my daily time to about 10 minutes. When I hit the limit it closes the app. Of course you can revert it. What I found interesting is that at first I reverted a couple of times. But eventually I found myself accepting the limit and moving on. It’s been super helpful. I find most egregious how the more time I spent on social—and again especially IG—the more my peace of mind and tranquility suffered. It drew me away from life-giving habits like reading and moving my body by going for a walk.

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Lisa Hensley's avatar

My approach to social media has changed so much since I have been off of it so much over the past four years. I still want to resource people but a lot of what I do on social media is repurposed pieces of writing from Substack. My approach is a continual work in progress. I always feel I could argue my way into not sharing anything on IG.

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