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What’s with the Social Media Diet?
What’s with the Social Media Diet?
Whoever said it takes twenty-one
days to build a habit, certainly hasn’t experienced letting go of some
serious social media habit, especially if it’s one of the biggest pieces in
your life that connects you from everyone else.
That’s the thing about being away
from home, being an expat, being a traveler, being “relevant” in the online
space, social media makes everything easier, but there comes a point that makes
you question its relevance - is it really that simple? Is it really that easy?
Yes, sorry about that.
Without any much warning sign, new
entries on this blog and on every other social media platform that I’ve been
wandering around have been abandoned recklessly. And yes, just like any
addiction certainly took me more than a month to really let the whole thing
percolate within.
So what’s with the Social Media
Diet?
There comes a point in your life
where you just want to seriously banish busyness, stop stressing, and REALLY start
living (at least that’s how this repost got me thinking).
Why so serious? Lol. :-)
No, but seriously right?
Just when I found myself that I
couldn’t easily connect by disconnecting online, that’s when I just knew,
there’s a need for some serious overhaul. It’s not like I’m too addicted or
anything, or like the ones who treats social media as their real-time
autobiography or what – it just needs some resetting to do. We need it
sometimes too, right?
And a lot has happened because of
this disconnect…
A lot reconnections in work,
non-work, travels, coffees, and all the rest of the things worth trying, doing,
and wanting.
Social media got replaced by actual
social meetups.
Tweets and Likes got replaced by
actual coffee conversations and genuine laughs from people. Travel blog entries
got replaced by newfound city experiences. It may have been a “diet”, but it
certainly beefed up a lot of other aspects offline.
It’s a good restart button, a
refresher, and a life changer.
Nowadays, being active in social
media makes it seem like a mandatory thing; it most probably still is, and will
still be IN in the long run, but it surely doesn’t hurt to take things offline
and make things matter from there.
Would it be easy and simple try
another Social Media diet? Maybe no, maybe yes. But it sure deserves a go
through.
And glad to have you back too - cos
yes, I’m back online. :-)
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