Listen, I'm the first to admit that I love using social media as a tool to grow my brand, connect with you(!) and occasionally, as Oliver Burkeman described in Four Thousand Weeks, to mindlessly scroll to forget about my problems. Intermittent Social Media Fasting (ISMF) is a method I use to dampen the effects of the platform and use it instead of it using me.
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Intermittent Social Media Fasting (how to dampen the effects of compulsive screen checking)
#90 - Quitting Social Media (Cal Newport)
Episode #90
“Part of what fueled social media’s rapid assent, I contend, is its ability to short-circuit this connection between the hard work of producing real value and the positive reward of having people pay attention to you. It has instead replaced this timeless capitalist exchange with a shallow collectivist alternative: I’ll pay attention to what you say if you pay attention to what I say—regardless of its value. ”
#56 - Social Media and Fragile Kids
“A culture that allows the concept of “safety” to creep so far that it equates emotional discomfort with physical danger is a culture that encourages people to systematically protect one another from the very experiences embedded in daily life that they need in order to become strong and healthy.”