I wish I could leave Facebook, Instagram and Twitter completely, but they have become almost mandatory to be able to do certain things (following local events for example).
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Reasons to Be Cheerful - The Benefits of a Social Media-Free February
I confess that I have been reading The Luminaries (a book about 19th-century New Zealand written in the language of the same) since Christmas, but until now I have only been able to handle a chapter a day. It's a very dense book and at 830 pages long, I was worried that I would never finish it. Or understand it if I did. I'll be glad to finish it and get on to something lighter for a while.
But yes, spending less time on Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram means that I have more time to focus on my Deep Work and I have more time in the evenings to read. It also means that I don't have the anxiety that comes with not posting to Facebook and not checking for any posts I may have missed. I know I'm missing everything, but strangely I feel a lot calmer about it than when I was checking it every day. If you don't know what you're missing you have a lot less FOMO.
Social Media Free February: Quitting Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn
Inspired by the book, Deep Work by Cal Newport (I’m inking while listening to the audiobook. Oops. I think that may be against the idea of the book…), I’m taking a social media break for the month of February. I don't actually use Facebook and Twitter as much as some people I know, but I do think that I need more time to be focused on some important things this year. I need to do a lot more drawing and writing, as well as get to grips with the garden and learn some new software so that I can migrate away from the iron grip of Adobe.
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