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Earlier this month, I decided to evaluate how I was spending my time — in part because I’m naturally curious and also because I wanted to see if how I was spending my time really aligned with my (so-called) values. I have a deep desire for 2020 to be the year I eliminate hurry — or at least severely decrease it — so I can spend more time with God and be fully present to the life in front of me today. So — I find myself in a bit of a predicament. With all the busyness of life, is it really possible to eliminate hurry? What would that look like day-to-day? And what does this have to do with social media?
Before I decided to fast social media, I started noticing what my free moments looked like. Do I reach for my phone? Turn on music? Complete a non-essential task (e.g. shuffling items, cleaning, re-organizing)? Basically: yes. I distract myself a lot, especially when I’m alone. And when you have a lot of legitimate tasks or places to be and then spend most of your margin distracting yourself, you feel even more spent. At least I do.
Social media is definitely one of, if not the, main vehicle of distraction for me and arguably much of our generation. I won’t use this time to go on a rant about the dangers of our phones and social media — though they are many — but I’ll just say that it’s not an accident that our first instinct is to jump to our phone, scroll a little, feel a little worse about ourselves, hop off and then hop back on a few minutes later.
For the last 9 days, I’ve not been on Instagram at all, logged onto Facebook once to check something and may have used Twitter once as well (I’m not really a big Twitter user anyway). Here’s what I’ve noticed/observed about myself in that time.
Takeaways & Next Steps
I am still fasting social media but might consider going back on it soon with a few parameters for how often I use it and for what. I do enjoy using social media – particularly Instagram to connect and be inspired. The point of this experiment and blog post is not to argue we should regress back to a time without social media. I absolutely recognize the benefits of using social media from time to time — as with anything, it’s important to be intentional with why we’re using a particular platform and check in from time to time to make sure this thing is still doing what it’s supposed to be doing.
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