maxmoon 🌱Jul 15, 2023

Will I be able to avoid Mastodon for a whole week?

Bets are open! 🎲

The last weeks I figured out that I often didn't check off the tasks I planed for a day and after checking my tracker*, I figured out that I am using #Mastodon longer and longer.

In general I don't get #addicted to social media and even help others to get rid of it or reduce it. I fight #entertainingmedia and even wrote articles about it in a blog series called #cleandopamine (https://utopify.org/clean-dopamine-journey-to-the-good-happiness-bringers.html)

But now it looks like, I lost control!

And as a #punishment I will block Mastodon on all of my devices and go #coldturkey for a week.

I will comment on this #poll as soon as I am back. So I hope it will be next Saturday 🙂

Let's do this 💪

* = I've coded my own #tracker years ago, which is simple to activate. After I sit down in front of my PC, I hit a key combination, choose an activity and a timer starts, which is shown in the status bar and after I stop the time, it gets added into a database (The starting process is done in 2 seconds, try this on a smartphone...).

I do this for years to see, which activity needed the most time, how long I worked on important projects and where I wasted time.

Currently the numbers for #socialmedia are too high!

#addiction #distraction #timewaste #wastingtime #doomscrolling #productivity #trapsoftheinternet

Yes, you can do it!
63.6%
No, you're an addict!
36.4%
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Clean Dopamine – Journey to the good happiness bringers

Project “Clean Dopamine” was born on the day I realized I have several dependencies that hurt me and I decided to fight them. I do not only want to leave the diverse addictions behind, though, but also become …

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Show threadErk709Jul 22, 2023
@utopify_org I haven't read the whole convo (time run out), but here's how I balance social media and other parts of life ... ;)
Show threadmaxmoon 🌱Jul 23, 2023

@erk709 Are you referring to the Pomodoro Technique?

btw. you didn't missed something in the whole discussion, because trolls/shitposters came into the discussion.

Show threadErk709

@utopify_org Hm... Sensomatics might have gone black. ;)

I'm not really using the Pomodoro technique... more... I have a handful of timers (though all digital) that I use for everything from actual cooking to limiting time on different tasks (especially social media).

This way, I at least know time's up... (really bad time sense)

The second part of the technique is to honor that and so on (not to mention, remembering to start the timer)... that's a work in progress though...

Jul 24, 2023 at 5:05amWeb
Show threadmaxmoon 🌱Jul 24, 2023

@erk709 Nice to meet someone who is obsessed with timers, too.

I once had a really beautiful huge hour glass (1 hour), I used to focus on stuff.

And I've created software, which forces me to choose a task I will work on after logging in into my computer (to start a stopwatch) and every time I stop the stopwatch, I have to choose another task or have to lock the screen. With this system I can do statistics where I invest/waste my time.

Social media had too huge numbers and that's why I blocked it for a week.

The second part you're mentioning is really hard. Having the discipline to leave social media after the timer runs out is something I still struggle with.

Sometimes I participate in interesting discussions (like this one) and want to write and read a lot more about the topic.

Do you always have the discipline to leave social media after the timer runs out?

Show threadErk709Jul 29, 2023

@utopify_org I wouldn't say obsessed... more that if my calendars stop working and my timers break I won't be there...

Mmm hourglass... I'd totally ignore it :| ... sometimes I don't even notice I've silenced alarms. :-S I'm #neurodivergent in that way...

I do have a spreadsheet where I type the time I start something, but that's for work only.

I don't think my problem is leaving per se... more that new impressions come in all the time. Suddenly, I'm just doing something new... #AuDHD