I Logged Out of Facebook For Over A Week

This is How Badly it Went

Photo by Tim Bennett on Unsplash

Disclaimer: Originally posted a few months ago on the Medium. The original was deleted and this is a revised version.

I made some significant changes in my life a few weeks back. One of them was logging out of social media.

Last Saturday I sat down to write a post about leaving facebook and chasing my dreams. It is such a cliche, I know. CollegeHumor wrote an excellent sketch way back when that laughed about people who did these things.

I left because I realized how much time I was spending on the platform. My iPhone helped me recognize it with Screen Time statistics.

Before this week, I would have around 2–3 hours of daily use of the Facebook app. During this week, I have translated these hours into using the Medium app. Definitely a better use of my time since I was writing for Medium and reading other articles.

The reason for this move was part of my attempt to declare war on my debt. I can’t work at getting ahead while I’m wasting my time away on reading BS on Facebook and writing posts that get me nowhere.

I used to write a lot on Facebook, mostly stories or poetry. These would get the occasional like and comment. Nothing serious would happen, and then after fifteen minutes…