I Deleted All Social Media Accounts and Replaced Them with Books
This is what happened to my life.
I deleted Instagram in 2018, Facebook in 2019, Pinterest in 2020. I still have a LinkedIn profile as a CV, but since 2020 I don’t use the platform anymore.
I was blessed to never have opened any of the other platforms, which makes them deleted by default for me.
In my free time, I decided to read books. Something that took years of dedicated work to create.
Instead of a thousand pieces of social media posts that took less than 5 minutes of thinking.
Anytime I had an urge to open an app, I would open Kindle or Audible and read/listen to a book.
Anytime I had an urge to scroll online pages, I would flip a book page.
Goodreads tells me now that I have read 231 books since 2020 when all my social media was deleted.
That’s brings my total number of lifetime read books to 694.
I started reading and keeping track of my books when I was 7 years old.
At first was tracking them in a notebook, but then transferred everything in Goodreads during my teenage years, and I continue updating my shelves there to this day.