How My Life Immediately Changed Without Facebook
My thoughts and emotional behavior look different.
About a month ago, after having the crap scared out of me watching The Social Dilemma, I deactivate my Facebook account. I didn’t delete it because I’m too lazy to download all of my pictures right now. That sounds exhausting.
I thought I would make it about three days before Facebook called me back and dragged me back in. Perhaps it’s the tail end of an election year or, you know, having better things to do, but there has been no desire to reactivate. At all.
There was no withdrawal. Just much more opportunity for positivity. Peace and quiet. It didn’t take me long to see changes in my attitude and behavior. The changes in my life were quick and unexpected.
My screen time has changed in strange ways.
My screen time has decreased by only 34%. I hover at about two and a half hours a day on my phone. I was at about four hours, which is pretty average.
The difference is the composition of the time I’m spending. The amount of time I spend texting has increased as I now connect with people actively instead of passively.
What hasn’t changed is my obsessive need to Google weird things like the name of the…
