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Five Powerful Benefits of Taking a Social Media Hiatus in 2022
During the evening of Sunday, January 21st I went into deep meditation. I often turn to it when I’m feeling stressed or when something is not working in my life.
Another weekend went by where I told myself I would take a break from social media for the whole weekend, but I ended up checking it anyway. I was no longer checking social media out of habit — l was checking it out of addiction.
I’ve taken many hiatuses from social media before. For many years I’ve given it up for months at a time. So I know how to stay off it. My problem is that when I’m on it, I want to check it many times each day to see who liked and commented on my posts. Despite my best efforts to check social media once a week or once a day, I often find myself addictively checking social media many times each day after I’ve posted an update.
I don’t burn up tons of time with checking social media. For me, it’s the frequency of checking it that gets me. I may only be on it for a few minutes at a time, but I’ll often find myself checking it five, sometimes ten times a day, especially after I’ve posted something.
This “all or nothing” tendency is unique to social media. In most other areas of my life, I strike a good balance. What’s interesting about this is I don’t have an addictive personality…
