Draw a line in the sand and dont cross it again !!!
I am 5 years facebook sober. No social media for me, beyond this forum. No twitter or instagram or any of that. Too much to do.
Instant gratification is a trouble brought on by the internet… social media,etc.
I do miss the twitters. I shut it down when starting sobriety. And then it got irrevocably deleted. Made a lot of good friends that I don’t get to speak to anymore. But I do recognize the trouble it can cause.
I did the same thing a couple months ago when I started this new sober life. No ties to the past. No distractions. Save some time and energy. I have this app now and my bible app, Pandora and a couple AA apps. That’s about it. Extremely helpful.
How does one quit facebook??? That’s something I’d love to do.
abruptly. Just like everything else we’ve quit. Lol
This is my only form of social media thankfully. I quit Facebook ten years ago and so glad I did.
Hey. I use my Facebook to keep in touch with my friends and family back home. My oldest son is also 14. He is very anti-social media. And anti-social for that matter.
When I was stationed overseas oh so many times, I’d drop a letter in the mail to my sister or my Nana. My entire extended family knew what was going on pretty quickly…it’d go “viral”.
Today, all it takes is a phonecall, and the same thing happens. My family up North knows what’s up with me and mine. Facebook was for me more trouble than it’s worth.
Plus I love the look on people’s faces when I tell them. Priceless.
I use FB, but totally understand people not. I’d like to post a couple of articles here in solidarity with people dropping social media it from their lives. Am I allowed to do that? (Its not a secret blast on a sobriety app…)
Ok-cool – Thankya.
Ahh. Well I just took the app off my phone. Problem solved.
Yes, you are allowed to post articles and resources - it’s actually encouraged. The reason the forum was created was to get people in touch and give them the ability to share their experiences and knowledge.
There is a rule against promoting and selling things on the forum, but unless you have ulterior motives like those you have nothing to be worried about.
Me too. People can’t understand why me and my husband aren’t on Facebook!
Ok cool – thank you!
I quited FB for two weeks now. Such a relieve!!! Good luck
Some interesting reading on the topic! Partly about social media, partly about phones.
I don’t follow any of my contacts and only use it for recipes and keeping in touch with a couple of niche support groups for work and personal. I post occasionally just to keep my family updated…we’re spread throughout the world.
I’d like to chime in on this one. I don’t think my life would be better off without my smartphone.
I own four smartphones and a tablet. You’d probably think that I’m addicted to them, but I’m not at all. They mostly just gather dust. I develop software. A large part of my job is writing code for mobile apps or testing websites on mobiles. Smartphones are literally a portion of my profession. I love what I do, and I wouldn’t be able to do it if smartphones weren’t a thing.
That’s from a professional point of view, but it’s the same from a personal one too. My smartphone is an invaluable tool to me. A great example was our recent trip to Greece. We used our smartphones for:
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Taking photos - saving memories (no need to carry a bulky camera)
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Backing up said photos to the cloud. This came in handy when my girlfriend’s phone was pickpocketed
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Navigation. We downloaded maps of all the cities we went to on Google Maps, so we could walk around and find our way even without an internet connection
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Keeping in touch with our AirBnB hosts
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Translating Greek to English
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TripAdvisor - To find some hidden restaurants
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Uber - Getting taxis. We could enter the destination through the app, which is easier than explaining it to taxi drivers given the communication barier
Well, those are just a few examples. Could we have done it without a smartphone? Perhaps… But I’m convinced it would have been a thousand times more difficult.
In the end it all depends on how you use it. If you use it like the amazing tool it can be, it will certainly improve your life. If you mindlessly scroll through social media and play Candy Crush for hours then it’s stealing your life away from you. Your phone should create more time for you, not suck it up.
Oh and of course, this entire platform would not have been possible without smartphones!