How Making Social Media ‘Weekend Only’ Changed Everything
Honestly, it’s the single best thing I have ever done
Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
My first task of the morning, the last thing I do at night, a default action hardwired into my subconscious being.
Watching a movie, scrolling.
Bored at work, scrolling.
Any lulls in my daily activities; scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
Hi, my name is Elsa, and I’m a social media addict — or at least, I used to be.
And in my defense, I was a little defenseless to its grip. As a thirty-something middle-aged millennial, I’m a core part of the generation that slowly boiled alive in the seas of social media. What began as an innocent MySpace account and sending each other ‘drinks’ on an earlier version of Facebook (anyone else remembers that?), insidiously morphed into a world of oversharing, over-scrolling, and a general all-round over-reliance on these apps.
And in its defense, it has brought so much to my life, most notably the ability to connect with loved ones, strangers, movements, and more. But, more recently I’ve become increasingly conscious about how much I am online — shoulders hunched, eyes squinted, unaware of my surroundings. And even more…
