Soft-leaving social media; choosing creation over connection
I’ll be visiting “feed” social media sites twice a month: once at the end of the month and once on the 15th, plus or minus two days. When I do come online, it’ll be strong immersion – I will spend much of my day there.
I broke most of my past commitments to reduce social media time. Probably I will do so again and it will embarrass me. I will write a post groveling. I’m at 60% confidence that I’ll fail within the next year, 85% confidence that I’ll fail in the next 3 years.
(The intention that’s been notably high impact and high staying power is using social media only on a dedicated laptop. I think doing that for 6 months successfully set the stage for being willing to soft-leave.)
I’ll try to use my online time to focus on the first two: actually downloading linked PDFs, replying to friends, and talking about what I’ve been up to.
The big life change that pushed me towards this is, obviously, having a baby. I don’t think I can have a family, create art, and entertain people online. The first will happen no matter what. Shoved by its bulk, the last two are in competition more ferocious than ever before.
