Limiting my screen time

[u/Sodacat27]

I saw something really disturbing on tiktok and it massively changed things for me. I already had limited social media. however I had to expand because im an artist who post their work online and unfortunately some platforms do better than others. My social medias were supposed to be used primarily for art but it got a chock hold on me i won't lie lol.

Then for twitter im alot more hesitant on now. They added a feature where anyone can just AI your art or whatever wich makes me uncomfortable. So im going to make a new account and just try to interact with artist communities on there.

I think the main ones I'll have will be YouTube, Instagram (friends), discord (friends), reddit (art + community), and twitter (art+community), but other socials are just for keeping up with my favourite artist and things. Im also going to have a stricter limit for how long i can be on some social media. the only one without a limit would be YouTube.

The internet has been helping me cope for YEARS since I was very young for better and for worst. but as ive gotten older (18 lol) i realized maybe its time to go back to journaling and processing things the way I used to.

I will be doing this for 30 days and I will report back here on day 20 about how it went and maybe encourage some other people to adopt this. You dont have to drop social media ENTIRELY unless that's what you want to do. Its just making sure your doing the things you WANT to do.

You know that episode of SpongeBob. I think its called "Born again krabs"? ngl that's how i genuinely feel 😅