This past week I went 7 days without using social media. At this point I had already given up on almost all social media except for YouTube. I didn't recognize YouTube as a place that was wasting my time. Recently I got an android launcher called "minimalist phone". This allows you to straight up block an app, the only way to re enable it is to uninstall the launcher which I didn't do. It reminded me that I set the intention to not use social media. All the time I spent in Instagram and YouTube went into other apps like ReadEra for reading, and I spent more time on reading instead. My days feel longer and I feel more relaxed. I can think more clearly. I know that the discipline is in having it on your phone and not using it, but by not having the ability to, I've lost the desire to scroll, so I blocked it for another 7 days.
