Digital Minimalism (part 3)

Another month on since I last wrote about this topic and I think I might have found my overall balance with my digital habits.

Last month I removed Instagram completely from my phone and shortly after realised the desktop app is very limited in its functionality so I've now been installing the app whenever I need to do something specific, then deleting it again afterwards.

Looking at screen time as a general metric is a little useless as I also use my phone to sometimes watch YouTube or films/shows on the Apple TV app, but on days where I don't watch anything at all, the overall screen time is below 2 hours which I'm taking as a positive since a few months ago I'd have easily sunk 2 hours in an evening doom scrolling.

I'm finding being off social media in general difficult in the sense that I've got stuff to promote, which I do, but then I don't stick around for anything else so there's a part of me that's missing the engagement, not just with my own posts, but chatting with people online. That said, that part of me is fairly minimal and so far hasn't been strong enough to draw me back in for any significant periods of time.

Where I'm at isn't perfect, it's an ongoing process but I think I'll just leave it here with this quick update. I don't think I need to post again about this now, I seem to have started to find what works for me personally and that's my main goal. In time, the changes I continue to make will probably be so minor that I won't keep track of them nor would they be particularly interesting to read about, I'm not even sure this post is all that interesting.

Anyway, I'm off work for a week now so there may be some photo journal posts coming in early August.

It's the weekend. Stop reading this crap and go enjoy yourself.