How To Actually Stop Wasting Time On Social Media

another day went by and you spent your whole day scrolling on social media while laying on your bed you might look back and think what did i do today most of us have projects and some activities that we would like to do someday but for some reason some day never comes are you still telling yourself that you don't have time it's not that we don't have time we don't make time and if you're thinking that you don't have time i highly recommend you to check your screen time and track what you're spending your time on how much of time are you spending on social media for meaningless scrolling if we could stop spending time on social media absorbing unnecessary information and use this time for the things what matters don't you think we would be in such a different place so rather than getting bombarded with irrelevant information i think now is the best time to say no and focus on what matters this video is inspired by the book make time so the first tip will be turn off your notifications you know notifications are made for stealing your attention because notifications are designed for that and as an app developer think about it of course you want your users to spend more time in your platform so that you can make more money so rather than getting bombarded with notifications and you know getting distracted while you're studying or working i highly recommend you to turn them off because if you don't have notifications you might not really think about those apps because notifications are reminders for you to open the app because they're kind of proving that there is a reason for you to use that app i turned off all of my notifications other than imessage and whatsapp and even on whatsapp i turned off all of the group chat notifications other than the family group because since i live in other country then my family lives if something necessary happens i would like to get informed so look back your whatsapp and imessage and all of the groups and if they're unnecessary turn them off and also on your instagram youtube twitter snapchat i don't know whatever social media platform you use turn off all the notifications they're just begging for your attention okay so the second tip will be increase the friction the more friction there is the harder it becomes for you to do that act unlocking your phone opening your favorite time soccer app is unfortunately really easy so in order to prevent spending time on instagram youtube or on tick tock whatever the best thing is increasing the activation energy i recommend using an app called one sec which was recommended from my really close friend izzy by the way this video is not sponsored by one sec or whatever i just have been using it for a couple of days and i really liked it so i decided to show on this video so on one sec app if you do the setup which is like really easy and it shows you on the app it forces you to take a deep breath before using those social medias and it also asks you whether you want to continue using that and sometimes i find myself autopilot opening instagram app without thinking about anything or without even getting notifications because i turned off my notifications but still you know it just became a habit for me to open that up and like scroll mindlessly but since i have the one sec app firstly it just allows me to like kind of stop and think back do i really need to scroll right now is there any reason for me to open this app and use a bit of time for my life you know and then while like thinking about this you can take a deep breath and it just allows you to become more mindful you might think oh this is like really annoying but the whole point is that like the app being annoying before you open these apps really allows you to kind of increase the friction so that you know rather than just like pressing on the app and then scrolling it's now a bit harder and trust me it is really annoying for example let me show you let's say i want to click on youtube i click it and the moment i click it it opens the onesec app and as you can see it allows me to take a deep breath and makes me wait for a bit and then also it shows how many times you try to open the app that day and here i don't want to open youtube and also continue on youtube since i want to show you guys i'm picking continue and then it asks your intention for whatever reason you're opening this up you open continue and then app opens so as you can see it takes a bit of time for you to open that up and this annoyingness kind of like stopped me from opening youtube because it's so annoying but since this app um requires a subscription another way you can increase the friction is that deleting every single time you use the app so let's say for instagram i usually one steak is not enough for me to stop using instagram because for some reason i'm addicted to scrolling on reels and these short form type of contents really gets me and like you're scrolling endlessly so if you don't want to pay for one sec what you can do is that download after every single usage and re-download whenever you want to use it and trust me since it takes a bit of time for you to delete it and then re-download it and like re-log in it increases the friction with time so it is a free way to do it but if you don't want to like really you know kind of spend time for it you can also use once a gap when discussing about spending our time wisely online i would like to introduce today's sponsor skillshare which will allow you to increase the amount of the value that you get from internet skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes members across over 150 countries who came together to find inspiration and take their creativity journey to the next step have a specific skill you want to learn skillshare is the perfect place to start from productivity to making youtube videos to cooking to well-being to even art and music you can find whatever course you're looking for wanna 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