{"id":407,"date":"2017-01-21T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylefix.boohoo.com\/us\/story\/what-happened-when-i-gave-up-social-media"},"modified":"2017-06-22T20:10:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T19:10:13","slug":"what-happened-when-i-gave-up-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefix.boohoo.com\/us\/story\/what-happened-when-i-gave-up-social-media","title":{"rendered":"What Happened When I Gave Up Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"collage i1\">\n<div class=\"collage-image i1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/what-happened-when-i-gave-up-social-media_17370_28613.jpeg?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"What Happened When I Gave Up Social Media\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DjlUjj7ewsA\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"extLink\">Image credit&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>By Sam Grisdale&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Hands up who\u2019s guilty of playing on their phone whilst having a conversation with someone; or scrolling through social media as soon as they wake up in the morning; or even performed a gymnastics performance to the other side of the room where your phone is charging after a notification ping has just gone off? Guilty as charged your honor. I sentenced myself to five days without social media. The FOMO made me anxious. Genuinely. Here\u2019s what I learned\u2026<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>1. I Had Time For Breakfast<\/h2>\n<p>Yes, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, you and I are both aware of this. BUT, most mornings I just never seemed to have enough time to fit it in before I had to rush out the door.<br \/>This week, instead of scrolling aimlessly through Instagram looking at what other people were eating for breakfast, I decided to spend this time making my own breakfast every.single.morning. It made me more alert, less sleepy and A LOT less hangry throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>2. I Was More Productive<\/h2>\n<p>At work, simply knowing my phone was at home on my bedside table seemed to spur me along and get lots of odd jobs done without pausing every hour to check my messages. Model colleague right here.<br \/>In home life, the boyf and I try to do 50-50 with the household chores. This week though, I bossed the lot and I felt so positive and productive keeping busy and looking after ourselves and our home.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>3. My Brain Wasn\u2019t Fried<\/h2>\n<p>Is anyone else familiar with the fuzzy head that coincides with the daily social scroll? I tried to read more to help relax my mind during any downtime which resulted in one of the best weeks of sleep I\u2019ve had in ages. Surprising considering it was the first week back at work after the holidays!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>4. I Communicated More<\/h2>\n<p>I was actively present in conversations instead of staring at my phone; I was aware of what was going on around me and I genuinely feel my lack of phone usage brought me closer and more connected to my loved ones.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>5. I Didn\u2019t Actually Miss Out On Anything Important<\/h2>\n<p>As I was talking with the boyf and chatting about the challenge I\u2019d set myself, he was watching a video on Snapchat of a man having a cyst squeezed that he\u2019d had on his back for over 30 years. I think that alone sums this point up.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, ok, ok. All that being said, I\u2019ll be honest and say I didn\u2019t stick to the detox 100%. FIVE DAYS IS A LONG TIME PEOPLE.<\/p>\n<p>However, it has put into perspective just how many times a day I instinctively picked up my phone for \u2018the scroll\u2019 without giving it much thought, and that is something that I really want to alter this coming year.<br \/>I\u2019ve already downloaded the Moment App which calculates how much time you actively spend on your phone, and also breaks the time down by each apps usage. It\u2019s given me some surprising results already\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 Motto: Less Scrolling, More Living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image credit&nbsp; By Sam Grisdale&nbsp; Hands up who\u2019s guilty of playing on their phone whilst having a conversation with someone;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[123],"tags":[1016,1046,3108,4668,4175],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-us-2","tag-challenge","tag-dextox","tag-life-us","tag-lifestyle-us","tag-social-media-us"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What Happened When I Gave Up Social Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sam Grisdale gives up social media for five days. 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