Since giving up social media isn’t challenging(this is sarcasm) enough we are also giving up: videos, videogames, and mindless time wasting sites. Here are some of the sites that we aren’t viewing for our August Challenge:
All social media: Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. Whatever else kids are into these days.
News sites: CNN, Fox News, Drudgereport, etc.
Entertainment sites: Reddit, Buzzfeed, Mashable
Other: Youtube
*Exception* If any of our challenge friends use these tools for work, they can continue to do that. If use them as a tool to avoid doing work, then the answer is no.
Why on earth would we do this?
Freedom. Freedom to be creativity, dictate what we do with our time, and freedom to not be influenced by crap. My goal is to produce more than I can consume. That means less pinning recipes and more cooking recipes. Less blog reading, and more writing. It means having coffee with a friend instead of looking at a picture on instagram of them and their coffee cup.
News, social media and entertainment aren’t bad, but they may be killing your: relationships, productivity, causing depression, increasing lameness. Screen addiction is a thing now.
Is it going to difficult? Yes, that’s what challenges are, and if you don’t think you can give it up then you definitely need to. Take a look at what happened to a group of people during a digital detox.
Join us. Do something different. Change your life.