I Thought I Was Addicted to Social Media

And I have to say it out loud: I am phone addicted.

My first goal was to uninstall games and social media platforms. But the problem I identified is that it’s not actually social media.

It’s doom scrolling.

It’s the going and going and going with no end.

I uninstalled Instagram. Then I realised doom scrolling exists on YouTube Shorts too. Shit.

And a few minutes after figuring that out, I found that Facebook has the same endless scrolling thing.

And WTF, I watched an entire Doraemon movie through Facebook videos.

So officially, my problem is not Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, or games.

And that makes the problem bigger.

On the learning side

I only revisited concepts I had already learned: coding-decoding and calendars.

But my brain is not braining.

There’s something I need to figure out about why I’m struggling to concentrate and actually learn.

Maybe the problem isn’t just the phone. Maybe it’s also how I’m approaching learning.

I don’t know yet.

So what changes now?

My screen time didn’t reduce. But today officially confirms one thing:

So now I need to change my approach.

Instead of trying to suddenly study for hours, I think I need to start learning in small chunks.

Otherwise it’s going to get difficult to manage everything: learning, my phone, and now this blog too. :/

It may be a bad start, but it’s still not the worst.

At least I’ve identified something I need to work on.

From now on, I’m going to decide the night before what I’m doing the next day.

So my main goal for tomorrow is:

Let’s see.