I have tried this 100 times and it eventually falls apart.
You have to make structural changes in your social media consumption.
Facebook and Twitter are the big killers for me. There'll be others for everyone else but the principles remain—delete everyone you can; block the rest.
The best way I've found to do this is to unfollow like crazy.
The best tips I've found so far:
- Only follow friends and family on Facebook—unfollow literally everybody else
- Unfollow 50% of people on Twitter. If there are friends you don't want to offend, mute their tweets.
I still find that I go to Facebook and Twitter regularly, but I stay there for radically less time.
Twitter was difficult because I had this underlying assumption which told me it was useful for work. It isn't. You won't miss it. Trust yourself to find important information when you actually need it.
I have tried this 100 times and it eventually falls apart.
You have to make structural changes in your social media consumption.
Facebook and Twitter are the big killers for me. There'll be others for everyone else but the principles remain—delete everyone you can; block the rest.
The best way I've found to do this is to unfollow like crazy.
The best tips I've found so far:
- Only follow friends and family on Facebook—unfollow literally everybody else - Unfollow 50% of people on Twitter. If there are friends you don't want to offend, mute their tweets.
I still find that I go to Facebook and Twitter regularly, but I stay there for radically less time.
Twitter was difficult because I had this underlying assumption which told me it was useful for work. It isn't. You won't miss it. Trust yourself to find important information when you actually need it.