Yesterday deleted the Facebook app from my phone to stop scrolling and wasting my time. Noticed that scrolling was like a slot machine, where I get dopamine from the expectation of the novelty. Expectation. That is counter productive because I have never been satisfied with this activity. Losing at times 7 hours of my time on it. Including watching interesting unplanned videos on YouTube.
I don’t want it anymore. I realized that there is nothing that I win with it. Nothing. I need a conscize review of current affairs. I can do it once a week following checked and reliable sourses. I don’t need daily presence online. I can keep my pages in perfect activity through batch publishing. I don’t know why would I want the social media anymore.
The downsides of being addicted to it from the other side have caused me productivity. I have not produced the products and projects that I wanted and with the speed I wanted due to this addiction. I was afraid to miss out on something and not being relevant enough to serve my audience and create positive influence. But staying in social media did not make me niether relevant nor I have made any positive influence.
Today I feel happy. Happy that I am free. Few times I have taken the phone responding to the impulse to scroll, but immediately remembered my decision to quit scrolling once and for all. It is a principle. I don’t scroll because of how the social media work today. Advertisement, low value content, out of the context.