A checkup and check in since reducing my digital social media-
To recap- I recently unfollowed everyone (almost 400 people) on Facebook. Groups. Sales Pages. Businesses I liked. Bands. TV shows. Things I didn’t remember joining. Friends, family. I was unmerciful. I unfollowed it all.
For a week, I’d spin thru my abbreviated newsfeed and only find an occasional rogue group or person I had missed on my cull. I slowly weaned myself off even checking the timeline because now there was nothing on it.
Twitter and Instagram too it’s place. Twitter, however, is now gone. I found I am not witty enough for the banter. I don’t understand half what is written there, and I had nothing meaningful to contribute to it. Gone.
Instagram has been wonderful. I am filling my feed with artists from around the world- some I know or knew from school- most I have never met, but admire. I have satisfied my urge to control what I see with this feed.
With Facebook, I did find that I missed out on some important things- a friend’s cancer journey made me pause and revisit who and what I follow on it. I have slowly added family and friends back on- not nearly the number I had. Most groups I muted, and check when there is something I need- not when Facebook decides I need to hear something.
There is a sweet, precious life waiting for me on the other side of the bright lights of my smartphone screen. I have lived it once, because I am old enough to remember life before computers in the home and smartphones in every hand. I would love to get back to that life- and focus on the real, tangible world surrounding me- 100% focus on my family and work.
I am hoping that by tightly controlling my newsfeed, I can inch closer to my dream of a less digital life.
No Time For Wine 
I’ve done much the same recently – pulled away from WordPress too – moved my blog to postach.io, so I don’t get sucked into the wordpress walled garden of liking posts, and not commenting. I struggle with twitter too – some people seem to invest an awful lot of effort into it.
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I tried to get “into” Twitter, but couldn’t shake the feeling it was for the cool kids 🙂 I need to read more blogs rather than little snippets I see on Facebook. I do notice WordPress is sort of insular- I don’t get much traffics from ‘outside’ so to speak.
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I hope you haven’t disconnected entirely! Your blog is going to be featured as the NEPA Blogs Blog of the Week on WBRE’s PA Live! tomorrow, June 5, 2018, at around 4:30 PM (give or take ten minutes.)
https://nepablogs.blogspot.com/2018/06/pa-live-blog-of-week-no-time-for-wine.html
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Hahah no not entirely !!
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Thank you so much for the heads up!!! I appreciate it so very much!
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This post is an eye-opener. I’ve been feeling the urge to spend less time on social media. Like you, I’m very selective when it comes to following friends, groups, and pages on Facebook. I only follow things/people that I know or I’m genuinely interested in. However, I still spend a good amount of time checking Facebook. I would like to do Craig Harmann’s social media fast. But not this weekend lol. Gonna try next one.
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