Tag: challenge

Quitting Social Media: Detox Challenge

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(16 minutes)

 

This week vlog follows Aileen on her social media detox. The rules she lays out for this are very specific to her – to make the challenge more appropriate you could aim to keep the following rules for five days:

  • No checking phone for the first hour of the morning
    • Set an alarm for an hour after waking up to let you know you can use your phone
  • Delete all social media apps
    • Re-download them as needed after the challenge
  • Decrease notifications after the five days
    • (If you’re going to be looking at the app soon anyway, you’ll see all the new messages, no need to get a buzz for every single one)

 

Plus! Check out the app Space that Aileen uses.

 

 

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  • Spending mindless time on social media leads Aileen into a cycle of comparing herself to others and making herself feel badly
  • An article from 2015 showed that in the US, people spend an average of 4.7 hours on their phone a day.
  • She tried out the app “Space” to track time on her phone
  • She is doing a social media detox to reduce time wasted on her phone and setup a few rules for herself
    • No using phone first thing in the morning
    • Only checking email on phone once a day, rest is on the desktop
    • Delete every social media app, except for IG because it is her job to post photos
    • Desktop only for other needed social media
  • Find a happy medium of using social media without getting sucked in for hours