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im a uni student & i constantly feel like im just going through the motions.. a paper bag drifting through the windā¦ rather than executing my free will and doing the things i want to be doing. i want to be more intentional with my time and how I spend it bc life is so short!!! life is too short to get caught up and distracted in the constant stimulations from the world & to shrink into a shell of yourself and rot away!! uninstalled instagram today, gonna start with being more intentional about the content that i consume :) in a time where thereās so much constant media out there and a majority of it is quite literal brain rot (soulless corporate advertisement made for a quick 15 second dopamine hit, monetary gain, or an ai copy) rather than art made from the heartā¦ i donāt want to lose touch w that humanity, i want to consume and create peopleās intentional art :3 as well as be more intentional with my own actions
Apr 7, 2025
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iām not at the point of fully deleting instagram yet, but this app has helped me remember what was fun in the first place. also realizing that sometimes i just need to directly text or call a friend, read my book, watch a movie. not just complaining online, which is also ok, but i love to have FUN <3
Feb 6, 2025
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Iām going through the same thought process right now. My twitter/x has been long gone, Iāve gotten rid of meta, and frankly if tik tok comes back purchased/changed/etc. I will no longer be using it either. So for me Iāve done a few things: Iāve made new social media on healthier apps (which sounds counterintuitive to less social media but hear me out). I made a Pixelfed and itās like the old old instagram. No ads, no distractions taking you to new links, no memes unless someone happens to post one on their personal account. Itās literally just people organically posting pictures of things they like from their breakfast to the view of their nature walk. Because itās so simple again, I donāt really think thereās room for doomscrolling. This is me if you want to see what I mean!
Next: I use Bluesky partially to see some goings-on in the world to keep up to date, I went to the library of congress website and specifically subscribed to their email newsletters on bills being introduced and news in congress to stay up to date, and Iām vetting some news sources looking for something more objective and reliable to start reading from.
Also: a while back I got some digital cameras like I had when I was a kid for nostalgia reasons but now theyāre coming in handy. Iām transitioning to using a flip phone! You donāt have to go this extreme but honestly Iām excited for it. Iāll have a flip phone so not everything will be so convenient and at the touch of my fingers, so I hope that my internet usage will become much more intentional. Iāll be leaving only a few apps on my smart phone, music, reading, this app and pixelfed for periodic social interaction lol, and thatās all I can think of right now. Iāll essentially be taking the SIM card out and using my smart phone as a wifi connected ipod lol.
My goal is to get back into my hobbies! Reading, sewing clothing, knitting, painting, being outdoors, gardening. Iāll communicate more intentionally with family and friends and not just through sending memes. I wonāt doomscroll for hours and then feel bad that I wasted the day away. A lot of the sinister stuff going on between social media monopolies and the government recently is making the transition even easier. Itāll be hard at first because youāll be so used to reaching for something to do for some instant gratification or stimulation, etc. but itāll be so overall rewarding in the long run! Good luckā¤ļø
Jan 19, 2025
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I need a place to archive my thoughts in a dated manner, but also not on instagram. I used to post things pretty frequently on my stories and then have a 'highlights' of the year that I could go back to look at, but now, I am not so comfortable sharing on such a commercial soul sucking platform that is data mining and surveilling and selling. I also feel like I am not, in my core, a good person. There are very few people who, when I see their success and happiness, spark genuine joy for me. For the most, I have to take a deep breath and remind myself that their life does not affect mine and that I should not let the display of their wealth of happiness, opportunity and beauty spoil the pursuit of my own. Some days, I feel so engrossed in knowing and wanting to know the updates of all the people around me. Now, I just want to shrink and disappear, I do not want people to know what I am up to and I do not want to peripherally watch others either. I want to focus on myself. I feel like I need to cut the plug on instagram with a hard delete. Maybe I will just buy myself a photo printer and print out the 'instagram' shots with their memories and make my own photobook instead. But I need to find a new way to document and archive my life.
Feb 8, 2025
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I <3 keeping track of the things that I love!!! (I have a horrible memory I canāt remember shit). In/Out lists. To/Do lists. Pro/Con lists. Books to read. Movies to watch. Bucket lists. Dreams. anyway shoutout lists 4 acting as my artificial hippocampus fr šš
Apr 9, 2025
oh to hear the birds chirping at the crack of dawn and seeing the sky get light again while u make the 76th slide for ur google presentationā¦ these r the moments we live 4 š (coping) (I graduate next month & will miss it tho)
Apr 10, 2025
just discovered The The last month and im so obsessed with them I canāt even gatekeep. this album is PERFECTION ššexistential crisis music š
Apr 7, 2025