Number 6's Blog

Two weeks ago I started a social media fast. Except for email the fast was successful in that I did not use any of the social media apps. See my previous post of click here

Of course I had lots of help from external sources. Gwen broke her kneecap on January 27 and I’m her sole caregiver. This, I have little free time to browse social media apps. Plus:

• Elon is forcing me to use the Twitter app by shutting down third party interfaces. I tried the Twitter app and I don’t like it. In the past
• Living without Tumblr is not hard since I rarely opened it either. 
• I only opened Facebook late at night during tv commercials. Thus giving up Facebook was easy.
• Instagram was the hardest for me to give up. I generally opened it every morning to view the latest photos and post photos of my own. I am not sure if I will start using it again.  
• Mastadon is a fairly new social media site for me. I had just created an account and started using it when I decided to try the fast. I will probably experiment with it for art least the near term.

Email was a failure for me. I had decided to only check email three times a day but my friends, family, and Master Gardener cohorts would message me and ask why I had not responded to an email. I finally gave and started checking it periodically. Perhaps I should have included messages in my social fast.

What’s next?

• Digital news including the Economist. Instead maybe the Dallas Morning News
• Games on my phone. They serve the same purpose as social media apps for me. If I have a few minutes or just don’t feel like doing anything I play a game. Instead I could just think

Check back in a couple weeks to find out how I’m progressing on this journey.