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This is part of the minimalism series of videos, so we touch on you physical goods
and then living with people who are minimalist and then I'm going to start focusing more on this whole
Lifestyle sort of thing as well, so I'll have a link to that playlist in the description box, so in this video
I really wanted to discuss social Media and I know I put a lot of my life on the line
and I do make some income from that like you know instagram and Youtube and all of that sort of thing
But I still think it is really really important to take a break. Don't get me wrong. I think being connected is awesome
It's great even comes out people from around the world
I know people that I would have never known unless I was on social Media
And it's just so cool to be able to make these connections everywhere and establish friendships that you otherwise wouldn't have been able to you
Personally I find that sometimes I need to just take a break
Recently like today was the first day in four days that I have logged into you any of my social Media
It's probably not much for some people but for someone whose life is mostly lived online. It was a fair bit of time
I decided that I was tired like I was tired of reading hate comments
I was tired of you know
Putting up with other people's opinions when I wanted to make something and other people didn't like it
And I was just like look I need to reset. I need to take some time for myself
I need to re establish what I want to do. Why I'm doing this and
Stop the other voices from getting in so much because that's one thing I have noticed it's like is this
really your opinion on a product or did someone tell you that that's what social media marketing works, so
Brilliantly you're getting and painting from someone you're hearing them saying it's good and that reinstates in here that the product is probably good
That's why I'm so picky about what I take on I feel like an opinion is definitely worth something and with Social media you have
To be careful is it so your own voice heal?
This - are you being drowned out by all these other people are you trying to compete with other people?
And pushing down your own work and looking at other people's thinking. It's way better than your own like what's going on
So that's why every few months
I like to take at least one or two days offline just completely
offline like are still using internet for my assignments and things like that, but I just don't want to touch any social Media and
Just me like the first couple of times you do this your friends will be like are you okay?
Why are you ignoring me you do hate me?
Like if you have friends like I just born them I kind of just like log off
and then I come back in a few days. I'm like hey. Sorry was not lying so in this video
I'm just getting you to do a few of my tips on how to detox yourself from Social Media
And when you do get back online some things you can do just to clear up your profiles
Minimize them that sort of thing the first step is obviously to cut everything off just log out of all of your accounts um
I have people actually messaging me like I get this a lot with like kids still in school or college
And they're like, how do we get my assignment done?
I'm so distracted and I'm just like log off just log off so just get yourself out of all your accounts
If there's any loose ends that need tying up do that beforehand like missing something be like hey
I'm going offline for a few days Durov essage mean here text me instead blah blah blah
and I was probably some people who think is quite an arbitrary video to make but
Hey, look, it's really important because I know people who are younger than myself who which is always online?
they're always connected and then was helping because that's how that generation grew up. I am sort of halfway between
that generation of the last and that I was never really online much my childhood on Social Media and
Then when we became like 9 10 years old that's when everything started to ramp up a lot with a staying offline
You'll find that you're going to check your phone so many times all your computer you like
I'm just going to check this and you're like. Oh, wait. I'm logged out keeping it logged out
It's the best way to start using it if you just close the app I guarantee that you will open it again
It's just a subconscious habit that you have you'll just go to check it, and then you'll be back online again
so just log everything out and
find something else to do like maybe you've got a heap of work that you have to catch up on you brought some assignments to
You want to go somewhere?
Go and do those things and do them without being logged in take the photos if you want to take it further
hard anything your need to post anything even now when I do it even though
You know sir many times before I've done the whole look about for a few days at a time
I'll still go to the habit of like checking my instagram, and I'm like stop
Sorry, it's something that I guess eventually you'll get used to because all my other accounts
I remembered that they were all looking at my instagram was my one
I just kept going to check it a couple of years ago when I did a Psychology assignment about being connected and social Media
and all that sort of thing I
correlated the Mobile phone to being like a social umbilical Cord
And I read so many studies that were actually saying that when they separated people from them about friends
They had really bad anxiety and it's not uncommon so what I decided to do for myself
this is when I was working like a normal office job
It's I'd go to work, and I'd leave my friend at home all day, and it was crazy
How much university work I got done in almost fair little pockets of breaks during the day because I wasn't checking my phone
But if you are logged out, and you do start to feel anxious that's definitely normal like that is
documented there is scientific proof if that happens to people when you log out and when you're
Disconnected when I do decide that I want to log back in that there is a couple of steps that I like to go through
Just to declutter my phone and my social media a little bit
I have done a video in the past on how to declutter your digital life like I think I focus mostly on the computer like
Files and that sort of thing, but this is specifically what I do in relation to social Media
I'm going to include my phone as like my stAndard phone as part of that as well so first off
I like to open up the phone part of my mobile
you know what it was originally designed for
So just go through and get rid of the contacts you don't need anymore
And then move on to calls
and I like to just clear out my recent calls list and then I like to jump into my
Message inbox and go through and just delete message conversations
I like to keep that either empty
If I can or if I have conversations that were still ongoing like text message
Conversations that were ongoing or someone has to reply to something
I just leave those ones
but if I can get an empty
I
Do next if you aren't doing it already with your emails try and get down to you might have heard of the phrase before inbox
Zero and it's to try and get yourself super organized with your emails
so the inbox is perpetually sitting on [0] by the end of the day you'll get emails coming throughout the day
Sort them as soon as you can if you can reply emails within you know like 10 seconds or a minute
Just like do it. Shoot off your short replies get them out of the way get them done
get your inbox back to zero as soon as you can when you start to let it creep out of control
that's when you end up with like a thousand unread messages next I like to jump onto Facebook and do a little bit of a
Facebook Clean-out
So I'll normally start with my furnace and I go through and delete my old photos
That way no one can go and find embarrassing old pictures of you
Which is like double handy, but I like to just like produce all the stuff that's online
I don't know why I've always done it
I used to be obsessive about only having there was two profile pictures like I never have more than two sitting in the album
I don't know now
I just go in and clear it out periodically
I'll just delete people who I find like super aggressive or really mean or
You know really derogatory just stuff that I don't want to see and even if it's people that I knew from like years
I mean, you like primary school
I'm like why you want here weird to look like one of us is just looking at each other's log, so this is weird
so I like to get people like that out of my friends list and
Just like my profile open following of course if you're more private you can just change your privacy settings
And you can have your profile on private. I also didn't like to go through my groups
I'm not in many groups, but sometimes people add me to like their shop and swap type groups
And I always remove myself from those if you go through and have a look you'll probably find that you're actually a member of more
Groups than you thought because people can just add you to group pages, then I like to jump onto Instagram Instagram clean out is super easy, and I just delete some photos that I feel don't fit my theme anymore
And I just unfollow some accounts that I've usually enacted a black
I follow a few people on there
But I just go through and unfollow ones that haven't pursued in a long time
So a good way to streamline all your news feeds on everything so Youtube Twitter instagram
Facebook is to unfollow or unsubscribe from people who you are not enjoying anymore
If you don't want to see it like what's the point of it?
just like scrolling up your feet, so I think a big part of
decluttering what you're seeing when you are looking into social media is unfollowing or
Unsubscribing from people another awesome thing that you can do is you can find?
Extensions for your browser to block any Kardashian, it's amazing
So anytime the name Kardashian comes up. It will replace it with something or remove it depending on which extension you have
What is the name of mine?
I can't remember off the top of my head, but I'll try and learn something in the description box for you guys
But similarly with things like that
I'm not interested
and I don't want to see that and if it's popping up on your Facebook like
You know this and none of the other or news articles that you really don't kept like so if there's not news
there is a little drop-down arrow, and you can say see less of this and
Your personal Facebook algorithm will start to calculate that you want to see less of that
It is kind of a lengthy process to do that. I mean, it's probably important if you're online a lot if you're not online
I'm going to be bothered another thing that you might engineer is delete some of all the inactive profiles things
You're not using anymore
Do you have an ancient pinterest account that you haven't pinned on do you have a linkedin profile from six years ago that says you?
Still work at Subway. I don't know if you haven't used it in six months. You're probably not going to use it again
you won't miss it another thing that I really really love to do is make sure that all of my
Notifications are turned off for most of my social Media. I've muted my notifications with Facebook
Instagram and Twitter
I think I only have a few
Notifications for YouTube because there's a couple youtube accounts that I really want to see their videos when they go live
so I make sure that I've got like my
slip a little bell symbol it like send you a notification when they uploads I've got a couple of youtube accounts that I have the
Notifications on for other than that I've got some messenger notifications
And that's about it because I don't want to be disturbed all the time by
You know something coming true on Instagram or seeing likes or like your Facebook?
Notification because to me I have so many more important things that I would rather be doing than checking that all the time
I remember back when I first started Uni like cuz I have had my notifications switched off in years now
but when I first time
at Uni I was getting so
Distracted and I'd be like reading that this is what I was doing photography like back in the day
And I've been sitting there reading in some of the material that we had to read it and be like notification notification
I'm like I just I just have to check this like I just have to check and
It is really distracting that is a few little pointers for me
But I hope they're able to help you a little bit like I was saying at the start of this video
It's awesome to be connected everything about every now and again
I think it's a really good idea to give yourself a little bit of a break
Remember who you are remember what you enjoy and don't let other people's opinions cloud your judgment all the time if you haven't tried it
before give yourself
Even like one or two days just logged off being present with the people around you and being present and fully
Involved in what you're working in whether that's I don't know schoolwork or an art project or something just allow yourself to be
present and in the moment
I know whenever I do this I feel like I've been circuit active in my days off
And I also feel super refresh like other people's judgments
Don't push on me as much as I did when I spent way too long online if you're planning on giving yourself a little social
Media Detox leave me a comment. Below. I'd love to hear from you guys, but as for now
I hope you guys are having a lovely day or night or whatever time it is where you are and I will catch you in
My next video. Bye