[ANTI] - SOCIAL MEDIA

well hi there friends ! i hope your having a good day today ! okay so recently i started noticing how reliant i am on social media and just how much time i spend on it. i think when it hit me the dos though was at school the other day at lunch. i was sitting on my phone just pointlessly scrolling through my social media whilst my group was talking about something that i wasn’t listening to. the next day i realised how the first thing i do in the morning is reach for my phone and the last thing i do before bed? you guessed it - scroll mindlessly through my social media ! i stated realising just how antisocial these apps were making me and with so much time to kill and nothing else to do - i decided i would give a bit of a social media detox a go. so i deleted instagram, facebook and snapchat off my phone so that there was no temptation and this is how it went;

day 1; okay so i will admit, i didn't take away all my social privileges - i left myself with messanger and imessage. and in true chloe nature, there was some hectic stuff i had to sort out the night before and the morning of so i wasn't completely distraction free, however once i sorted that stuff out, i found myself in a bit of confusion in what actually to do in my morning procrastination time ! getting rid of social media definitely did cut down the time in my morning routine, leaving me time to have a proper breakfast outside and just relax !! that morning i didn't take the bus so there wasn't too much of a need for my socials, however i must say it did feel really great to have a bit of a break from the online world !! later that day, instead of going home and jumping straight onto the phone, i went out with a friend for some afternoon tea and it was really nice to just catch up and have a nice chat to her without the distraction of our phones !!

day 2; so friday morning was pretty similar - i had heaps of time to chill in the morning and then i actually did take the bus, so it was a bit odd to be on the bus without anything really to do so i just watched out the window and chilled !! that night we went out for dinner and i must say, i reached for my phone to snapchat my food wayyyyyy to often - but alas, without the actual app, i had no way to share my yummy food and had to put the phone down !

day 3; on saturday my family went out to the boat club to have a look at for a sail boat for my dad for his birthday, so we spent majority of the day out there and surprisingly i barely even reached to use my phone so i felt quite happy with that ! i actually had quite a lot of fun without the distraction of my phone, whilst my dad was inspecting the boat, the rest of my family opened up the boot of the car and sat out looking over the water and it was just really nice and peaceful!

day 4; on sunday we put up the christmas decorations and at the start i was really close to re-downloading snapchat just because there were so many funny things that were so story worthy but luckily i stopped myself and once i got past that the rest of the day was really fun !

day 5; on monday night i found myself recapping the whole day trying to find any times that i wanted to use my social media but both to my surprise and delight there really wasn't any times ! i did yoga in the morning since i had so much time in the morning without social media and i seriously loved it. i found it put me in a really good mood for the rest of the day and i just felt super happy !

overall; so overall i genuinely enjoyed not having my social media for a while. it was really nice to just disconnect from any drama or anything that tends to come up on social media and reconnect with my friends and just everything else around me. when i did get social media back i only got it back for the purpose of making plans with my friends during the holidays (i actually went a week and a half without my socials but stopped recording it after 5 days cause it would've been a very long and boring post!!) and even once i downloaded the apps i didn't even open them until a day after. i now feel as though i'm less reliant i guess on using social media to pass time and i think i've become more, i don't know, present i guess in what's happening and trying to immerse myself in some new goals, projects and in helping out my friends through their problems and i'm really loving it ! i would definitely recommend doing a detox even just to have a small amount of time because i think you get to learn from it and overall i just found it really relaxing !