Have you realised the need for a detox? If not then think about this. We devote hours of our days searching every little detail about what others are doing. We show our life with no care about privacy. Instead of actually doing something we waste that time just looking at social media. With so many options and updates we simply become hypnotized. Tortured with what we see, wanting to keep a fictional standard created by social media.
You actually spend hours just looking at a phone. Doesn’t that sound toxic?
Say goodbye to the utopias people create with photographs and statements through social media. To be able to freshen your mind from other people’s lives, achievements or anything that is not you then you must detox.
Some detoxing tips and also some cleansing rules:
- For at least an hour a day turn off your notifications and do something you like with no interruptions. When was the last time you disconnected?
- Unfollow from every social media people who aren’t your real friends. Why are you showing your private life to random strangers? That is the drawback of a celebrity so why do you want what they don’t?
- Unsubscribe from emails you just delete and don’t read.
- Before going to sleep instead of using your phone do something else like reading a book instead of a screen or meditating.
- Make a rule to never use your phone when you are with friends. Actually hanging out with people = no phone. Even in situations when you forget a fact or need to show something you saw online.
- Try to replace this technological distraction that has become more of an addiction with something healthy. Every time you feel the need to spend hours looking at a screen, go do something real. To live a life by the phone is not to live at all.
- Deactivate one account. We all use too many social media apps that basically give us the same information. For example Instagram shows us the life of others visually and Facebook shows us their interests. Although there has been a generation shift in which social media they chose, why not just chose one? Or at least delete one?
- Delete all the apps that you don´t use
- How frightening is the fact that when someone wakes up, in the span of three hours they already accessed their social media at least once?
Really look at what you are doing. Do you really need to constantly show your life to everyone? Where is the privacy? Is a like really more than just a click? Are you dependent? Do you have the need to show your life while stalking everyone´s lives? Wake up and don’t be dependent!
