Practice #76 - Deleting Social Media Is Scary

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I remember when I still had social media.

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I was thinking to myself, I knew that this was bad for me.

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I knew that like it's harmful and it's gonna affect my future

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and it's holding me back.

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But I was like, oh, but what if, what if, what if, what if,

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what if somebody doesn't want me to leave?

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What if my friends are sad?

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What if, what if all this, it's a bunch of crap.

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It's a bunch of bull crap.

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Because in reality, I was just addicted.

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It's as simple as that.

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Social media, like it's bad.

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Literally, if you're on Instagram scrolling,

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if you're on Twitter scrolling, if you're on TikTok scrolling,

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even YouTube scrolling, it's bad.

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Like there's no nothing to like, you know.

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Every single excuse you come up with is simply just your mind

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that is addicted, trying to stay addicted.

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Like that's it.

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And I realized that, so I was like, okay,

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I'm getting rid of this stuff.

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Completely deleted my accounts, but then I started

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to get addicted to YouTube.

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And I was like, I just kept watching YouTube,

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endless YouTube videos, endless YouTube videos.

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And I was like, oh, this is bad.

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And then I just completely stopped using electronics,

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completely off the internet for like a month.

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And that helped because then I kind of like reset my brain.

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And then once I got back to it, I was like, okay,

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I know that YouTube is like good.

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Like it's not good, but it's a very valuable tool

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if you use it correctly.

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And so I was like, okay, I got to create my environment.

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And I downloaded some extensions on my computer.

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And I stopped using YouTube on my phone.

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And now I only use it on the computer and I have extensions.

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So I can like hide all of the everything that I want to hide.

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And I make sure that like I only, when I check the homepage,

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I'm only on it for like a couple of minutes.

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And I like click on all of the videos in a new tab

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that I want to actually watch that are actually gonna help me.

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And I'm very conscious about what I click on

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because you're training the algorithm

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to feed you what you want.

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So if you train the algorithm to feed you a bunch of like

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inspirational, not very helpful videos,

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well, that's gonna give you all that,

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but it's not gonna help you that much.

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On the other hand, if you train it to feed you

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like extremely educational videos

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that are actually gonna help you

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and are actually gonna help you towards your goals,

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well then that's what it's gonna feed you.

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So that's what I do.

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I pretty much only click on things

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that are actually gonna help me with my goals.

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And then I close that homepage and I just watch the videos

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and I have an extension to where it blocks all of the

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thumbnails on the watch next.

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And it blocks like the description and the comment section.

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So the only thing on my screen is the video.

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That's it.

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And I just sit there and watch it

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just from the beginning to the end

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or at least until I realize that it's a waste of time

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and I'm not getting value out of it.

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So that's exactly like social media is good

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if you use it properly.

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Now there are social medias that I don't think are good at all

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like Snapchat and Instagram,

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unless you're creating content on those things.

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Like if you're consuming on TikTok, it's not,

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that's not good.

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If you're consuming on YouTube,

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it's only good if you're strategic

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and you're conscious about it.

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And then if you're creating content on anything,

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then that's good.

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Like you're,

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I think that creating content is a good thing.