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Why Taking Breaks From Social Media is Mandatory
Listen, my relationship with social media has been a wild ride from the moment it began to the present quandary of how to schedule the much-needed short breaks.
Before coronavirus became the beast of our existence, I was doing quite well with the disciplined regimen of compulsory time off from the seductive mechanisms of Twitter and Instagram.
My first taste of an hourlong hiatus felt seductively empowering, and it wasn’t hard to extend that thrill for the rest of the day.
It’s basic common sense to want more of what feels good, and there’s nothing like being able to restore original settings after endless robotic online engagement that does way more damage than we realize.
One of the items on my to-do list for 2020 was to drastically reduce time spent with meaningless interactions on platforms that are designed to heighten emotions for viral dramatics, that almost always ends in disaster, just in time for the next season of chaos to proceed.
Even as a bonafide “nobody” with a meager number of followers on applicable logins, I’ve experienced the highs and lows of maintaining active accounts in my decade-long experience as a disciple of the ongoing social experiment.
