Limit Screen Time
My Month Without Social Media: Less hunger, more time - And who cares about the trend of food?
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One of the worst features that appeared in the iPhone in 2018 was the screen time, which records how much you use your phone. It breaks down what you are using - productivity, social networking, games - even specific applications.I came to know that I spent an average of four hours on social media every day on social media. Before that, I was deliberately oblivious and happily in the downtime for my phone - in the line for coffee or in between the emails - go to lounge, liking and posting. For me, this willpower was a mental obstacle between joyful extra and existent regret.
Maybe I can stop it as part of my routine and accept that we are living in an arbitrator world. But a hoarse voice in my head not only keeps an easy list of all other things that can be done by me during that time, but also says that I am somehow crazy for it.
More than anything else, screen time has encouraged me and why I post. Because I can spend 14 hours a week on social media as well as insights into my practice, so I dedicate myself for a month's social media diet. I've already removed Facebook, and felt sensible for it, but I became semi-addicted for both Twitter and Instagram. Regardless, I removed them both.
I posted and posted according to what I liked, this is mostly food and drinks. This is understandable because my job is to eat and drink. I operate the bar (including irony, one of the most Instagrammable people in Washington), writes about souls and cocktails, and spends a lot of time thinking about the topic. Whether @Scotch_Trooper (a photographer's Instagram feed in which he presents data for Star Wars action with Scotch bottles) or posting photos of Artificial Line Canalis, I have an excuse: research and publicity. But this is not the only reason I should do this.
Eating and drinking things are highly embarrassing. Not only do we often eat something like this - usually three times a day - it covers a number of reasons we are connected to social media.
Posting these pictures is a creative task. We practically become food stylists when the first plate collides with the table, grabs candles and bottles in the background, and asks everyone to keep their hands off. I spent a lot of time getting the right lighting for asparagus on a butcher's block. That post was also quite liked.
For many of us, these reflections create community. Message board, blog and mouth word were used, but, before my diet, I got lots of information from people's feeds. And they can get from mine only. We share comments and messages that socialize in the city square, talking about the latest and latest trends. Comments and messages are brief but still meaningful.
In addition, food and drink communicate our values. We can show people that what we believe is important. It can be healthful, durable or organic food, or it may be the body's positivity. A brief statement or picture can generate similar feelings in others and encourage new behavior. I am sure that natural liquor is better than your counterpart. There are more antioxidants in it. I have learned on social media.
In other words, eating and drinking echoes because they are influenced by the meaning. When we discuss culture, we often start with food, so social media is another way of sharing those cultural moments. Jean Antihalm Brailat-Sawerin, author of "The Physiology of Taste" once said, "Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are." It can easily change "Tell me what you post ..."
There is also negative side
By posting food and drink photos, we become graceless sheep with hungry cameras. Persistent interruption in food, obsession with style on substance, repetitive post that imitates more than mean: All speak less for creativity than one of our worst behaviors in an attractive pastist.
We are also raising and raising social issues. Citing examples of horror women such as scary monsters Hamburger and hashtag #foodporn in bikinis, some people have identified social media as an insult, which favors erotic images and false pretenses. Can a message of hope and inclusion, which boils down to the division of society with new types of sexism and classism.
We only display our best performances, which creates a currency that is shallow and harmful to our self-images. To be creative, to share information, to strengthen our affiliation and identity, to present our ethical values in the world is essentially operated by the superficial nature of the medium.
I am very guilty of that. So many times when I posted a picture of food, the reality was good or not and details of the conversation, company and settings were lost. And I knew it looked good but was mostly unattainable for most.
Yet in this stone between good and bad, I think I can find a way to incorporate social media into my life. I had to retreat and try to understand my role better. In the first week of reducing my screen time, I immediately noticed some things:
First of all, using social media has become a reflex. I know about the growing likes of Facebook, Twitter's chopped statements and endless supplies of images of Instagram that I see them or not. It creates a tick that automatically makes you to reach your phone, searches for the icon of the app and then, as if awakened from a dream, feel what you are doing. This happened when I deleted my apps for the first time - I was suddenly holding my phone and swiping without any intention. It is weird to think that the siren call of overstands sandwiches and Witty Retortes is driving your unconscious mind, but this is it.
Second, I'm not hungry all the time. It seems obvious in retrospect, but one side effect of not seeing food continuously is that you do not want that much food. Behind it is actually science. Psychologist Charles Spence, author of "Gastrophics: The New Science of Eating" in 2016, wrote in the Brain and Cognition Journal that only seeing food can have the effect of leaving gastric juices, essentially preparing us for food. . Do you want to lose weight? A social media diet can help.
Third, it shows that I really do not care about this or that latest one. One part of my work has been on the top of trends, but instead of manic searches which can consume my time hours, I am reading Hemingway's "For the Bell Belle Toll". In a way, which completely takes me apart. I make
Last, I really have time to do other things: 30 percent more to be accurate. I still reach out to my phone, but instead of looking at Twitter or Instagram, I read more articles and play chess online. Not spending too much time on social media has made me free to do whatever I want. Now I am missing all the posts you liked, even those who promote this article, and also where you ate last night, because you remember sandwiches with avocado, lettuce and tomatoes Will happen.
Is social media making me more smart? I'm dumb like usual. But the simple task of thinking about how and why I am using social media and the benefits I have gained from it are worth it.
When my social media diet ends soon, I miss one more thing: simple tasks to sit, stop, empty hands, do nothing at all.
Brown is the owner of a cocktail and spirits writer, spirits judge and bar in the district.