{"id":703,"date":"2021-04-30T17:20:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T17:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2021-07-28T12:58:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T16:58:16","slug":"why-you-dont-need-social-media-and-how-to-stop-using-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/04\/30\/why-you-dont-need-social-media-and-how-to-stop-using-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Don&#8217;t Need Social Media (And How to Stop Using It)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As pretty much everyone who&#8217;s ever tried to do a digital detox learns: weening yourself off social media is tough.<\/p>\n<p>After all, social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok aren&#8217;t just backed by billions of marketing dollars that help make them ubiquitous.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re also designed by software engineers to maximize the number of dopamine hits you receive while using them, making refreshing your Facebook feed almost as addictive as pouring quarters into a casino&#8217;s slot machine (and about as productive).<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, while breaking your social media habit may not be easy, it&#8217;s certainly not impossible.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s at least one person who&#8217;s managed to take his digital detox to a whole new level.<\/p>\n<p>Cal Newport is a professor a computer science professor at Georgetown University and the author of multiple books, including <em>Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World<\/em>, <em>Digital Minimalism<\/em> and <em>A World Without Email<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And as he explained on an episode of The School of Greatness podcast, the key to finally breaking social media&#8217;s spell lies in recognizing what you do \u2013 and crucially, <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> \u2013 need.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qlBV_CDvuYs\" width=\"870\" height=\"489\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As pretty much everyone who&#8217;s ever tried to do a digital detox learns: weening yourself off social media is tough. After all, social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok aren&#8217;t just backed by billions of marketing dollars that help make them ubiquitous. They&#8217;re also designed by software engineers to maximize the number of dopamine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}