DELETE INSTAGRAM

Instagram won’t make you more productive, more happy, or a better person. You’re better off deleting it so you can focus on becoming your best self in real life, not giving a like to another meme in a time sucking app.

Productivity

How many times each day are you interrupted with distractions from your phone? I tracked I was unlocking my phone upwards of 200x a day 😳. Our ability to focus on tasks is eroding and social media is at the center of this.

Benefits

The benefits of keeping in touch with friends lives are quickly negated after we scroll the feed aimlessly jumping from meme to meme. There's no need to be hyper connected to everyone each and every second of our lives. We never were in the past, why do we have to be today?

Opportunity cost

How you spend your days is how you spend your life. What if every free opportunity you use scrolling the feed could instead be used on something you care about, such as: calling a friend or relative, learning a language, reading a book, learning a new skill, or simply being mindful and checking in with yourself.

Addiction

Yes, you are addicted to your phone. We haven't established baselines for a healthy usage of social media that won't deteriorate our ability to focus on tasks. Until then we need to detox off of social media as much as possible which means holding ourselves accountable.

But if you must use the ‘gram then you might as well follow me 😅

@NomadProductivity

Here is a great talk from Cal Newport, author of Deep Work, on why he quit social media and a great starting point for understanding all the downsides of our social media addiction.