Your Social Media is Ruining Your Life! Here are 7 Tips On How To Reduce Your Dependence on it

And gain some useful habits along the way.

Vic Bowling
5 min readMar 18, 2023
a sketch of social media apps and a finger pointing at them
From the author’s personal archives.

When did we turn into social media employees? I feel like we show up for our social media accounts more consistently that we show up for our direct responsibilities, such as cooking dinner or cleaning the house.

Because let’s be honest, as we are here amongst friends. What would you choose? Unlimited social media scrolling session or deep cleaning the house?

We might want to choose to clean the house, especially remembering the in-laws that are coming… but how many times have we opened an app ‘just for a minute’ staying there for a few hours?

I am guilty as charged and my house is still waiting for that deep clean. Sigh.

The enemy that we didn’t know we had

It all started so well! The mighty Internet gave us an opportunity to watch other people’s life without being accused of voyeurisms.

We can discover fascinating and fun facts, peer into the lives of rich and famous. And all that at the mere click of a button.

Less scrolling, more living.

— @crewandco

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Vic Bowling
Vic Bowling

Written by Vic Bowling

Mentor, Mum. Channelling my Inner Magpie by Collecting Tips, Ideas and Stories on Personal Development. Find me on bitofselfcare.com 🎈

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