You can go cold turkey: remove the software from your mobile and computer or you can reduce the time you spend with social media little by little. Use a kitchen timer or something like that - it should be loud to "wake you up".
You could set yourself small rewards for keeping this promise to yourself.
But at least as important: look for something else to spend you time. Take up knitting or gardening or riding a bike or reading a book (you know, these things made from paper with these quaint little signs in them) or use you mobile as a phone and talk to people. Keep yourself entertained :)
I have to ask, by disconnect do you mean totally remove yourself from social media? or just a temporary disconnection, or perhaps you just want to get to a point where you're not totally dependent?
Disconnecting entirely is a very hard and sometimes impossible thing to do. I say this because this is the 21st century. The whole world is moving to the internet. Most people even have their workplaces here now. Companies use social media to communicate directives and valuable news and informations to their employees. All in all there really is a great deal of advanatage to be obtained, but obsession with anything is bad. And truly social media can be really addicting.
Thankfully though there are ways to reduce our social media obsession drastically. I list some of them below:
1. DELETING APPS AND STICKING TO BROWSERS:
Most social media platforms can be accesed via web browsers as well as via mobile applications. A cause of addiction for most people is the easy availability of these apps on their mobile phones. It is there with them every single time. All you have to do is open your phone and the app icon flashes at you right from your screensaver.
Deleting the application and only sticking to accesing the page on your web browser will give you the space to withdraw. Also the experiences on most mobile web browsers are mostly not as satisfactory as having the applications. Perhaps this not so good experience might inspire deterence in the future.
Also related to this point is:
-- Timing yourself after.
You can set a time by which you get the necessary things done. The amount of time/duration you're to spend per day and etc.
-- Turning off push notifications.
If you don't want to delete the app entirely, yiu can choose to turn off the push notifications. This way you won't have the app buzzing you every second. Trust me this goes a long way. Out of sight out of mind, like they say.
2. GRADUAL WITHDRAWAL
Like I said, a complete withdrawal might be too difficult and unfeasible, but gradually reducing the amount of time spent, even if by a few minutes or hours each day, might go a long way in securing total independence.
3. FINDING NEW HOBBIES
This is probably the best method. Some say the best way to get rid of an unhealthy addiction is to replace it with a healthy one.
Go out, take a walk, go swimming. Take programming lessons, blog on steemit--or wait, that's a social media too lol. My point is, find something that would keep you occupied, this way you won't have to feel the urge to go back too deeply.
4. STAY CONNECTED
Yes yes, I know, this may seem a bit contradictory; okay a lot contradictory, but hear me out.
A mistake most people trying to withdraw make is trying for a total absolute withdrawal at once. This may be the worst step to take. You might even lose your mind this way, really. This is after all something you have been doing for a really long while. Trust me the urge is not going to away overnight.
So give yourself some moment to stay connected, time yourself, and after that way you can apply the principle of gradual withdrawal. I wish you the best of luck.
Once you get to like something it is really hard to stay away from it. While it is the virtual world that you need to come out of and be with the reality.
While you can do few things that will help you
Take some time off away from your daily life. Take a vacation which will improve your mind and soul and do not take any gadgets with you on the trip
Use your time wisely, make a routine and engage with actual people. Make conversation with them, make plans with them and make them happen.
Be with your family as they are your close ones and spend time with them it will help you both mentally and improve your relation with them.
Several possibilities:
You can go cold turkey: remove the software from your mobile and computer or you can reduce the time you spend with social media little by little. Use a kitchen timer or something like that - it should be loud to "wake you up".
You could set yourself small rewards for keeping this promise to yourself.
But at least as important: look for something else to spend you time. Take up knitting or gardening or riding a bike or reading a book (you know, these things made from paper with these quaint little signs in them) or use you mobile as a phone and talk to people. Keep yourself entertained :)
I have to ask, by disconnect do you mean totally remove yourself from social media? or just a temporary disconnection, or perhaps you just want to get to a point where you're not totally dependent?
Disconnecting entirely is a very hard and sometimes impossible thing to do. I say this because this is the 21st century. The whole world is moving to the internet. Most people even have their workplaces here now. Companies use social media to communicate directives and valuable news and informations to their employees. All in all there really is a great deal of advanatage to be obtained, but obsession with anything is bad. And truly social media can be really addicting.
Thankfully though there are ways to reduce our social media obsession drastically. I list some of them below:
1. DELETING APPS AND STICKING TO BROWSERS:
Most social media platforms can be accesed via web browsers as well as via mobile applications. A cause of addiction for most people is the easy availability of these apps on their mobile phones. It is there with them every single time. All you have to do is open your phone and the app icon flashes at you right from your screensaver.
Deleting the application and only sticking to accesing the page on your web browser will give you the space to withdraw. Also the experiences on most mobile web browsers are mostly not as satisfactory as having the applications. Perhaps this not so good experience might inspire deterence in the future.
Also related to this point is:
-- Timing yourself after.
You can set a time by which you get the necessary things done. The amount of time/duration you're to spend per day and etc.
-- Turning off push notifications.
If you don't want to delete the app entirely, yiu can choose to turn off the push notifications. This way you won't have the app buzzing you every second. Trust me this goes a long way. Out of sight out of mind, like they say.
2. GRADUAL WITHDRAWAL
Like I said, a complete withdrawal might be too difficult and unfeasible, but gradually reducing the amount of time spent, even if by a few minutes or hours each day, might go a long way in securing total independence.
3. FINDING NEW HOBBIES
This is probably the best method. Some say the best way to get rid of an unhealthy addiction is to replace it with a healthy one.
Go out, take a walk, go swimming. Take programming lessons, blog on steemit--or wait, that's a social media too lol. My point is, find something that would keep you occupied, this way you won't have to feel the urge to go back too deeply.
4. STAY CONNECTED
Yes yes, I know, this may seem a bit contradictory; okay a lot contradictory, but hear me out.
A mistake most people trying to withdraw make is trying for a total absolute withdrawal at once. This may be the worst step to take. You might even lose your mind this way, really. This is after all something you have been doing for a really long while. Trust me the urge is not going to away overnight.
So give yourself some moment to stay connected, time yourself, and after that way you can apply the principle of gradual withdrawal. I wish you the best of luck.
Cheers.
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Once you get to like something it is really hard to stay away from it. While it is the virtual world that you need to come out of and be with the reality.
While you can do few things that will help you
Take some time off away from your daily life. Take a vacation which will improve your mind and soul and do not take any gadgets with you on the trip
Use your time wisely, make a routine and engage with actual people. Make conversation with them, make plans with them and make them happen.
Be with your family as they are your close ones and spend time with them it will help you both mentally and improve your relation with them.
There are a number of tools that can help you with that. I would suggest looking for tools that block certain websites for certain times.
StayFocusd for example is a Chrome extension that blocks websites for you, on which you spend too much time.
[Freedom](https://freedom.to/?utm_source=frdmblg) is an app that blocks websites and apps that you use too much. It's available for Windows & Mac.
There are more tools, you can easily find them yourself, but I think this should already get you started.
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