A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Minimalism
New Year resolution: control your technology, don't let it control you.
You are reading this. That is to say, you have a medium account, a smartphone and a laptop, tablet or PC. At the very least, you definitely have an email ID. Maybe more than one ID.
We are digital beings. You can’t deny that. We are on multiple online platforms and social media sites; we are constantly creating. This is all pretty cool. Until Youtube takes you down a rabbit hole or Facebook convinces you to buy something or Google seems to know just too much.
Let’s be honest. We rarely read any “Terms and Conditions”. Storage settings? Only when the storage is too full already. But, with all our data swimming in the cloud and the internet, can we afford to be negligent? We are leaving behind crumbs. In a world of cookies, privacy updates and data mining, we gotta clean up.
Shall we?
Let’s break this down into 5.
1. Apps
We spend more time on our phones now than ever before. With increased mobile usage, there has been an increase in mobile-friendly websites and downloadable applications. Take your phone.
