I am missing Twitter horribly, but I think I have established a healthy relationship with Facebook. I can visit it once a day for a few minutes without getting distracted by it. But then I never liked Facebook much in the first place.
Here's the thing though. I got up yesterday with an idea for some writing that would make a good blog post. But I didn't follow through on it because I had other things to do that were higher priority. But I did get involved in making a comment on a blog. This was a breach of my no social media regime. And once I had started I found myself going back to it several times to keep up with the debate. I nearly made a second comment - but managed to summon the willpower to delete it halfway through.
The thing is, the time I wasted on reading, commenting on and following the debate on that blog post would have been enough to have very nearly half completed the blog post of my own that I abandoned. Am I the only person who does this? It is really perverse behaviour. Cutting out the good to concentrate on the great is a really sound principle. But when I try to put it into practice it often turns out to result in giving up the good to concentrate on the trivial.
I sometimes wonder if there is any hope for me.
http://personaldevlopmentforsensiblepeople.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/giving-up-social-media-for-month-post.html
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