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2. Turn Off Notifications
The first step towards reducing social media usage is reducing the number of notifications you receive. Whenever you tap on any notification, it takes you straight into the app and thirty minutes you still find yourself scrolling through your feed. Most of the notifications are not important, e.g the notification about ‘Someone commented on someone’s photo on Facebook’.
However, you don’t need to turn off all the notifications. Rather you can customize notifications so you only receive important notifications.
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6. Delete Social Media Apps From Your Phone
Delete all social media apps from your phone. Only use social media in the browser or on a computer only.
Apps are designed in such a way as to keep you glued to your screen. On an app, rewards are high and friction is low. However, using a mobile/computer browser offer considerable frict...
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3. Follow Only The Accounts That You Find Value From
Take a few minutes to look at your Friend List or Follow List and Unfriend/Unfollow people who don’t add value to your life or to your news feed. This is a great time to unfollow people you don’t know or the people who post things you don’t like.
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5. Implement A Social Media Free Day
At first, start by declaring a single day as ‘Social Media Free Day’. It could be any day of the week. After some time you can increase the intensity to multiple days e.g no social media Sat and Sun.
Another lite approach could be to declare a few ‘social media hours’ instead of the whole...
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7. Find New Things To Do
In the end, a more productive approach to reducing social media usage is to find other screen-less activities.
You can try these :
- Read a paper book.
- Walk/Run
- Go outside in nature.
- Send a postcard.
- Visit a library.
- Go to a gym.
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4. Resist The Urge To Share Everything
You don’t need to put a status update every time you eat at a restaurant. Not only this is bad for your privacy, but it is likely to increases your social media usage.
Try posting only on specific days like on weekends or only on Monday.
Think a moment before posting and ask yoursel...
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1. Track Your Screen Time
First of all, you have to see precisely, how much time you spend on social media. A screen time app is perfect for this purpose. Most of these apps not only measure the total amount of time you spend on your phone but individual usage of the apps.
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Turn Off Notifications
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Turn off new message notifications on both your computer and smartphone to prevent constant distractions. Check for mail when it's convenient for you.
8. Turn off notifications
When I'm writing, I close my email and other tabs. I don't have any notifications showing up on my computer at all so that I can focus on the task ahead. Try turning off all notifications while you're working, or if that sounds too extreme, only turn them off during the periods you need to...
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