Valeriy Kachaev/Spruce Books, Image 1 Valeriy Kachaev/Spruce Books Image 2 I check my phone as soon as I get out of bed in the morning. Before I even get out of bed, I’m checking emails, browsing Twitter and Instagram, and reading good morning texts.
I’ll continue doing that all day long till I retire to bed for the evening. It’s difficult to gauge how frequently individuals use their phones. Americans are AA1 according to a recent survey.
You might not even be conscious of your behavior if, like me, a lot of your digital habits are habitual. You can use the questionnaire created by Log Off: Self-Help for the Extremely Online, creator Sammy Nickalls to evaluate your online behavior.
USE THIS QUIZ TO DETERMINE YOUR SCREEN TIME ABILITIES:
It might be challenging and even frightening to face the truth about your online behavior. Unplugging fully and getting off the grid is a common reaction that tries to swing the pendulum back in the other direction. That is not a sustainable strategy, according to Nickalls.
“Most of the time, you’re just entirely off of social media for a few of weeks,” she claims. “and what follows? You re-enter the online world without really having a strategy in place to determine how to strike a balance between being entirely offline and being overly online.”
According to Nickalls, cutting back on your internet time is more crucial if your web usage is making you feel off-balance. She recommends a technique known as “digital minimalism,” which was created by Cal Newport, a Georgetown computer science professor and the author of “ Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. .”
You can interact with the digital world in a way that is deliberate and suitable for you if you practice digital minimalism. How to begin going is as follows:
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Try turning off push notifications and deleting social media apps from your phone to create natural obstacles to access them. If that’s not enough, you can use screen timers or app blockers to make it even tougher to log back on.
Setting these boundaries changes how you interact with the internet and social media, but that could also mean it changes how you interact with other people. “The really great thing about rolling back your social media use is that it kind of helps you see which relationships were kind of a bit shallow,” Nickalls said. “If the relationship is meant to stay, it will.”
If there are people you know you want to keep up with who you usually connect with on a particular platform, let them know how they can stay in touch.