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Wowee, week 2🙀! It has now been 2️⃣ weeks since I've replaced my smartphone 📱 with my dumbphone ☎️ and its been wild 🤪. Apart from how difficult it is to send a simple message 😔, I faced many challenges 😥. Excitingly 😸 I was at national this week so I had a different swing of life. At the birth 🤰 of the week I was at WOMAD which is a music festival 👩🎤 where all I wanted to do was share with my fans how much super fun 🥳 we were having but NEVER SHALL I BREAK 🫡, I shall resist the erges the universe presents me 🪐. I soared ✈️ to Sydney with my printed-out boarding pass feeling like an absolute elder. Throughout the week I heavily relied on others to tell me when and what we were doing.
A major point of realisation is that our generation look at ourselves way too much 🤯. Social media creates an unhealthy 👹 environment where we try and display ourselves in the most pleasing and likable 😊 way possible. Consistently comparing ourselves creates internal conflict snowballing ☃️ into a bunch of insecurities 😬. I've noticed every time I go out I am consciencely thinking if I look gorge 💋, if the girls want to be me and the guys want to be with me. NOT if I feel safe and comfortable, how freaking fricked is that brothers 🧌? We nitpick our appearances like monkeys 🐒, WHO are we trying to impress 🧐? WHY do we care so much about others validation 🤷♀️?
I invite thee to share if you think younger generations are too fixated on their personal online image, does this sacrifice mental health due to the insecurities it brings?
xoxo MeowWhenBored 🤘😼
Mar 22, 2025
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wow burger this is very insightful and I love the personal reflection at the end. I too believe that we are quite dependent on outside expectations on social media particularly.
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FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA. Im obsessed with it. how could i not be? it seems to be one of the few ways my body can get dopamine other than inhaling burning plants and reading fun facts. So, without warning to my loyal instagram story likers who are probably scared and crying and lost without me (no one noticed), i deleted the apps.
then I went outside. i sat by the river and let the sun do it's thing. boom: phat hit of dopamine. but the real kind. Saw a mama bald eagle and a teen baldie hunting together. boom: thinking about something other than myself. wondering if the teen ate any of his siblings. wondering what the mom will do when he goes off on his own. is she proud of him? do they argue? but then i remember they're birds and dont work like that. just like that im back in my body again, demystified by the impassive nature of birds. ugh. then my hands reached for my phone without thinking. i cursed at myself.
all social media does is distract, because when i try to relax without it, i get antsy from craving other stimuli. but what am i trying to distract myself from? my own thoughts? how sad is that? why cant i just sit somewhere and think for awhile and feel fulfilled?
the sun is still out. birds still flying overhead, and i'm thinking about my need for distraction–– a distraction within itself. this is what social media has done to me. i feel stuck in a big ole sticky spider web called the internet and have no fucking idea where else to satisfy my dopamine addicted brain.
(so anyway, hiiii perfectly imperfecttttt xxoxoxxoxo hope u can help me reestablish my relationship with the interweb? i need a fix from somewhere im a junkie!!!!!!!!!! )
Mar 12, 2025
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in the age of endless access to information, the unknown can quickly become known - though i think we've reached a point where balance is desperately needed. our brains are sensitive and absorbing information constantly whether we like it or not. i recently deleted social media from my phone and now only log on at the computer (love how many pi.fyi recs i've seen on this) - anyways i finally joined the club and see no going back. i don't want to know everything about everyone all the time and on top of that be plagued with intrusive ads (no matter how relevant they may or may not be). being present is crucial, and watching other people's lives on our phones whenever we want can definitely take one out of the present. if i were a true conspiracy theorist, i'd say it almost seems strategically designed to interrupt our normal train of thoughts and give everybody add and make us less thoughtful or make us stray from our true path. i think there's an art to boredom and liminal zones. if you're in a doctor's office waiting room or in a coffee shop waiting for your drink, i think its cool to just be nothing for a moment, limbo is a luxury and giving your consciousness and attention to something every second strips you of that temporary feeling...
if we're homies and not seeing each other in person we can text about our lives. instagram stories have begun to creep me out, i don't like how normalized casual stalking has become. i feel like it makes everyone overly analytical and constantly thinking about social dynamics all the time, injecting way too many forms of micro-anxieties for everyone throughout the day - there's value in time spent alone with our thoughts and i feel like the status quo of social media and internet without boundaries at the moment is infringing on some timeless human functions. that said we need to connect and find out about things and discover each other and using platforms like pi.fyi and instagram allow us to do so, we just need to be mindful about how we go about it. i think it's okay to not know everything all the time, mystery creates intrigue and that's stimulating enough for me...
Jun 8, 2024
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I’m going through the same thought process right now. My twitter/x has been long gone, I’ve 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 I’ve done a few things: I’ve made new social media on healthier apps (which sounds counterintuitive to less social media but hear me out). I made a Pixelfed and it’s 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. It’s literally just people organically posting pictures of things they like from their breakfast to the view of their nature walk. Because it’s so simple again, I don’t really think there’s 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 I’m 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 they’re coming in handy. I’m transitioning to using a flip phone! You don’t have to go this extreme but honestly I’m excited for it. I’ll 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. I’ll be leaving only a few apps on my smart phone, music, reading, this app and pixelfed for periodic social interaction lol, and that’s all I can think of right now. I’ll 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. I’ll communicate more intentionally with family and friends and not just through sending memes. I won’t 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. It’ll be hard at first because you’ll be so used to reaching for something to do for some instant gratification or stimulation, etc. but it’ll be so overall rewarding in the long run! Good luck❤️
Jan 19, 2025
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I've am using a dumb phone for a month and I'm now one week in! I have switched from my beloved iPhone SE 📱 to a trusty Nokia 225 ☎️. The first few days I was on a high I felt unstoppable 💫, strutting down the halls with my rose gold brick 🧱 glistening in the light. I got so many fans come up and take photos 🤳 with it and try it out, I was on top of the world 🌏! Until ... I started feeling symptoms of instagram reel withdrawal 🤬. My one true love is no longer I have been forcibly ripped from the hands of heaven due to our forbidden romance 🥀.
My sleep health has notably improved due to me not going on my phone before bed 🛌, it has increased my sleep quality and quantity 😴. This experiment has made me more laptop-dependent considering all the apps I need to use are online or on my Mac 💻. Overall my mood has increased and I am texting less but calling more 😊. I mainly communicate through mouth of words 🗣️, SMS, and phone calls. I found many challenges with the limitations of apps like I couldn't use my training apps or WhatsApp which hindered my ability to complete trainings and communicate with coaches 🏋️. I couldn't use Apple Pay, Airdrop, or Find My Phone which affected my organisation and safety👷♀️.
My studies have interestingly 🧐 remained the same, I thought because I wouldn't have access to distractions like social media my academics would improve however I procrastinated equally as with my smartphone 📚. To me it is clear why this has occurred, my attention span from my use of social media has shortened 😬 which makes me procrastinate similarly to previous times but instead of being distracted by my iPhone, I am distracted by other things like food 🍱.
Overall it has been pretty smooth sailing ⛵️, I do feel superior because I catch myself being more present and notice more things like how super awesome I am 🤘🤠
Mar 18, 2025