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Apr. 5th, 2022 20:19Ok. Because I Am Me, I am making all sorts of Rules for my Social Media Break.
First, I feel like I should mention to the four people (hey guys! Love you all) following me here, I'm probably about to post a lot more often because I decided Dreamwidth Doesn't Count as Social Media for the purposes of this experiment.
I might not! But I'm doing this partly to try and just give myself permission to Write Things even if they are flawed, so uh, heads up I guess? I'll tag for fandoms.
Anyway, I think I'm aiming to start April 15? I'm getting assigned to a new Big Project at work April 25, so I feel like it will be good to be in the swing of things a little earlier. I'm aiming for one month off social media. Exceptions are, I might check facebook like 1-2x a week because some people will only contact me there even though I beg them not to and I'll click on links to things of people send them to me. But otherwise, no facebook, tumblr, twitter, instagram, tik tok, etc.
Pondering paying for a news subscription for the duration, to have a place to replace as my default "I need to distract myself with short content" clicks on my phone. S keeps bugging me to buy an Atlantic subscription, so maybe Atlantic. And might even indulge for Slate and finally read all the Dear Prudence Slate+ content I have been eyeing haha.
Otherwise thank you for all the recs! I have a bunch of fics and new games all ready on my phone and really, the only thing holding me back right now is the fact that I have, um, 500+ tabs to close between my computer and my phone. So, uh, hopefully that will be done by April 15!
(I would like to say I'm doing great on closing tabs, but really, I just keep opening new ones is the problem.)
First, I feel like I should mention to the four people (hey guys! Love you all) following me here, I'm probably about to post a lot more often because I decided Dreamwidth Doesn't Count as Social Media for the purposes of this experiment.
I might not! But I'm doing this partly to try and just give myself permission to Write Things even if they are flawed, so uh, heads up I guess? I'll tag for fandoms.
Anyway, I think I'm aiming to start April 15? I'm getting assigned to a new Big Project at work April 25, so I feel like it will be good to be in the swing of things a little earlier. I'm aiming for one month off social media. Exceptions are, I might check facebook like 1-2x a week because some people will only contact me there even though I beg them not to and I'll click on links to things of people send them to me. But otherwise, no facebook, tumblr, twitter, instagram, tik tok, etc.
Pondering paying for a news subscription for the duration, to have a place to replace as my default "I need to distract myself with short content" clicks on my phone. S keeps bugging me to buy an Atlantic subscription, so maybe Atlantic. And might even indulge for Slate and finally read all the Dear Prudence Slate+ content I have been eyeing haha.
Otherwise thank you for all the recs! I have a bunch of fics and new games all ready on my phone and really, the only thing holding me back right now is the fact that I have, um, 500+ tabs to close between my computer and my phone. So, uh, hopefully that will be done by April 15!
(I would like to say I'm doing great on closing tabs, but really, I just keep opening new ones is the problem.)
