How 30 days without social media changed my life
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How 30 days without social media changed my life
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#2I enjoyed this writeup and it's well-timed for me. I'm going to try it!
Anything you would add to the blacklist that you didn't initially?
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#3I enjoyed this writeup and it's well-timed for me. I'm going to try it! Anything you would add to the blacklist that you didn't initially?
* Facebook/Reddit/Twitter/HackerNews (sorry)
* delete your twitter/facebook clients from your phone
* delete RSS reader (I still checked Google Reader, but browsed selectively every 4-5 days)
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#4I enjoyed this writeup and it's well-timed for me. I'm going to try it! Anything you would add to the blacklist that you didn't initially?
Same, sounds like a good idea.
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#5I enjoyed this writeup and it's well-timed for me. I'm going to try it! Anything you would add to the blacklist that you didn't initially?
RSS is the big time-sink for me. It never stops, and I feel the need to clean it out.
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#6This essay could also be called, "Life in the 80s (and early 90s) for most people." Back then, you had to be relatively informed to have access to "social media" (i.e. Usenet, gopher, BBS).
It's amazing how much productivity has been disrupted by social media. There are of course huge upsides as well, but sometimes I wonder if the full downside is recognized. A lot of people I know do very little work in the workplace, as they spend all day on Twitter and Facebook. They get around IT bans by using their smartphones... sometimes I wonder if the only thing running corporations these days is automated software.
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#7Paul Miller, one of The Verge's editors, is taking one year off from the Internet. He's blogging about it (via a USB stick that someone else publishes from) https://www.theverge.com/label/offline It's very interesting, especially "Ghost Limbs" and "Ignorance".
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#8I enjoyed this writeup and it's well-timed for me. I'm going to try it! Anything you would add to the blacklist that you didn't initially?
If 30 days is too much, we're launching a free app that lets you cut off social media for 30 minutes at a time.
https://monotask.com (downloadable now)
We also have a pro version that lets you customize your whitelist and blacklist.
We hope you use the time to make some awesome stuff!
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#9Great post - I've been using RescueTime to be more mindful of how I spend my time and curb my social media use.. Great idea to have a 30 day challenge
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#10(spoiler) i lived life. the end.