Launspach explains the negative influence that socials* have on us. These are things that you may unconsciously know, or have read somewhere.d avoid or unfollow people who make you jealous, frustrat or angry. For example, I discover that I was now following almost 600 accounts on Instagram. Now that I am more aware of my emotions about content from certain accounts, I have start a major clean-up.
Set a maximum time. According to research
10 minutes a day is the sweet spot for your social mia use. That’s enough to stay on top of things overseas data, but not long enough to get completely lost. Check your screen time settings on your phone, or use apps like Freom (desktop and mobile), RescueTime (desktop), or Stayfocusd (Chrome extension).
2. Put your phone down more often
‘Fun’ fact: we pick up our phone between 60 and 300 times a day on average. For practical matters (calling, navigation, internet banking), but still largely for social mia. Social mia platforms are mainly visit via smartphones. And that smartphone is actually always within reach. Every time we pick it up, we are tempt to open a social app and by all the addictive functions that are built into the apps, such as notifications on your screen, r dots near or in the app, pulling down your screen to load new content and more.
You can largely escape this by only using social mia on your computer. You don’t always have it at hand and you avoid a number of addictive features. In any case, the author recommends turning off your notifications, so that you have control over when you view new messages and notifications in the app. This advice actually applies to all apps, but for me LinkIn and Instagram really took the cake with sending trivial notifications.
If you want to take a more drastic approach
A remove the apps from your home screen. This will stop you from opening them without thinkin the program was also able but instead you will have to manually enter the name in the search field every time you want to open the app. Setting your phone to grayscale can also make mindless scrolling a lot less attractive.
It probably hasn’t escap your notice that the emphasis on many social mia is no longer on ‘social’ but mainly on consuming content . But that is partly within your control. The author advises to use social mia again for what they were once intend for: to exchange experiences and updates and to stay in touch with the people who really matter to you.
In other words: ditch the content of influencers who are secretly a source of social comparison and performance pressure and focus on the lives of people you actually know and like. And get your entertainment elsewhere.
