PODCAST · education
SocialMediaBreakup
by Johan
Learn how to:•Beat phone and social media addiction•Spend your time, attention and energy efficiently, instead of letting our device drain us•Use your smartphone effectively and efficiently•Use social media apps, mail apps, and Instant Messaging apps wiselyAnd:•Simple tricks that make using your phone less compulsive, and give you back control•The detrimental effects of excessive phone and social media use, and how to reduce that without giving up on social media entirely•Why it seems impossible to stop using your phone•Facts about social media and phone addictionAnd much more!
Episodes
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Shift Your Focus From Your Phone to an Activity
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/shift-your-focus-from-your-phone-to-an-activity/ When I tell you to think of a purple car, you will imagine a purple car in your mind. When I tell you NOT to think of a purple car, you will imagine a purple car in your mind. The same applies to the concept of…
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Be in Awe of Your Life and the World
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/be-in-awe-of-your-life-and-the-world/ Who doesn’t love flying? The main experience starts when you enter the airplane while hearing this calm melody and a voice welcoming you aboard. You look for your seat, put away your hand baggage and finally sit down while...
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Introduce Intermittent Smartphone Fasting in Your Life
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/introduce-intermittent-smartphone-fasting-in-your-life/ You may have heard of intermittent fasting. You choose regular time periods to eat and fast. For instance, you might try eating only during an 8 hour period each day and fast for the remainder. Fasting for…
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Delete the Social Media App When You’re Done
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/delete-the-social-media-app-when-youre-done/ Reducing your phone use has a lot to do about what apps you have installed on it. Remove all apps and you will use your phone less. No surprise there. What we really want is to be able to use our phones less while all...
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Move an Online Relationship to the Offline World
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/move-an-online-relationship-to-the-offline-world/ It is much easier to fool someone online than offline. Online you can tell any person any story you want since all you need to do is typing the words. While typing you can decide to beautify particular details or...
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Enjoy Your Meal Without Posting About it on Social Media
Who doesn’t love food!? A life without the pleasures of food will undoubtedly be less exciting. Food is one of the many go-to factors of life that we can feel easily grateful for. Like with anything, good high-quality food takes time. Patience, care, and dedication are required like with…
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Ask Yourself the Right Social Media Questions
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/ask-yourself-the-right-social-media-questions/ When we approach someone or meet someone, questions will be asked. You ask questions to get information from that person. The more information you gain, the more opportunity there is to connect with the person. You...
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Leave Your Smartphone Dormant at a Concert
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/leave-your-smartphone-dormant-at-a-concert/ Our phones have amazing high-quality cameras. The need for a separate device to film events, trips, and priceless moments is long gone. The smartphone brought many devices to old school level or made them simply...
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Scroll More Offline Than Online
Scrolling is an addictive activity. The same applies to swiping on a dating app, you just don’t know when to stop. You tell yourself okay this is the last post I see or the last person that I will swipe left or right. But somehow you’re still scrolling or swiping 5 minutes later. Swiping on a...
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Assign Certain Tasks to Certain Devices
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/assign-certain-tasks-to-certain-devices/ Those days that we only have 1 screen to entertain ourselves with are long over. With the advent of the television we started to program ourselves that it is perfectly fine and normal to look at a screen for a couple of...
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Use Email Filters in iPhone’s Mail App
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/use-email-filters-in-iphones-mail-app/ Smartphones are marvelous. Smartphones are fantastic and enhance our lives in such unique ways. There are so many opportunities for grabs because of our smartphones. The invention is so phenomenal, that we often get a…
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Use Privacy Shortcuts in the Facebook App
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/use-privacy-shortcuts-facebook-app/ Facebook is known for its many (hidden) settings that are actually very important to be aware of! Facebook’s mission is to connect you to the world. In other words, many default settings of your profile cater to this very...
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Enable Two-Step Verification in WhatsApp
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/enable-two-step-verification-in-whatsapp/ I won’t tap dance around this very important message: Whenever you can: enable the two-step verification option. There is no way around it. It is super important that you secure all your accounts, whether they are social...
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Enable Ghost Mode in Snapchat
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/enable-ghost-mode-in-snapchat/ If you would go back in time to 1952 and tell people how much information we are sharing with another in our present time 2020, they may be thinking we are stalking each other. The good citizens of 1952 will probably think why we...
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Increase the Playback Speed of YouTube Videos
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/increase-the-playback-speed-of-youtube-videos/ As they say: time is money. Time is valuable. You can lose money but you can always make money. Time passes, but we can never create more time or buy more time. The sand in the hourglass is moving downward, we just...
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Don’t Keep Hiding Online Because of Fear of Judgement
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/dont-keep-hiding-online-because-of-fear-of-judgement/ The ego, that voice in our mind is super clever. It comes up with very good reasons why you should not do something. You might feel this burning desire to act on a particular idea you are having, but that…
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Don’t Allow the Google Effect To Make Your Brain Lazy
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/dont-allow-the-google-effect-to-make-your-brain-lazy/ Having a supercomputer with you at all times offers astonishing advantages. It’s not hard to appear as the smartest person in the room when you’re allowed to use your phone. That small device can show you...
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Are Conspiracy Theories Worth Your Time?
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/are-conspiracy-theories-worth-your-time/ You can find all sorts of information online. When you open YouTube to find a simple answer to a simple question, you never know what it could recommend you next. YouTube doesn’t necessarily try to lead you to content…
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Idolize Yourself Instead of Online Influencers
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/idolize-yourself-instead-of-online-influencers/ Being a spectator of other people’s lives is easy. We spend lots of hours finding out what other people did, bought, or said. The more uncomfortable we feel about ourselves, the more we tend to look external. When...
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Go to War With Yourself
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/go-to-war-with-yourself/ This year (2020) I’ve read the book Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins. That’s the beauty of reading books from different writers: The ultimate message is the same, but there are so many ways of explaining just 1 concept. David Goggins has…
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Look for the Benefits While Experiencing the Big Pause
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/look-for-the-benefits-while-experiencing-the-big-pause/ The pandemic is well underway and the situation is getting more hopeful with each week passing. Not everywhere, but in most countries. Hopefully, we can welcome 2022 with not only open arms but with the...
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Focus On Being One Version of Yourself in the Offline and Online World
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/focus-on-being-one-version-of-yourself-in-the-offline-and-online-world/ The internet is a busy place. Social media is a busy place. There is always something happening in the virtual world. When there is a sense of direction of what you should be doing, this…
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Wanting it Doesn’t Always Result in Enjoying It
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/wanting-it-doesnt-always-result-in-enjoying-it/ We can write a loooong list of things, people and activities, we want to have, do and be. Although many of such desires should be pursued, not all of them will make our lives necessarily better. Personally, I love...
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Don’t Focus on Others Liking You
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/dont-focus-on-others-liking-you/ Personally, I never watch all the rolling credits after finishing a movie. When I do, I check mainly the names of the actors who played the main characters. You probably notice that after seeing the names of the main actors, you...
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Your Data is Used to Predict and Control Your Behavior on Social Media
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/your-data-is-used-to-predict-and-control-your-behavior-on-social-media/ If you follow me for a while now, you probably know that you are not Facebook’s customer. You’re the product. The advertisers are the customers since they pay money for Facebook’s services.…
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Enable Dark Mode in Your Messaging Apps
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/enable-dark-mode-in-your-messaging-apps/ 2 blogs ago I mentioned the idea to enable Dark Mode in your social media apps. When you enable Dark Mode, the white background changes to a black background and the font color changes from black to white. More apps are...
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Tech Titans & CEO’s Also Restrict Screen Time
You have probably heard of the statement “don’t get high on your own supply”. In Brian De Palma’s Scarface from 1983, Tony Montana (played by Al Pacino) does eventually fail to live by that vital rule which is the beginning of his drastic decline. The smart dealers know how to make other people...
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Enable Dark Mode in All Your Social Media Apps
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/enable-dark-mode-in-all-your-social-media-apps/ Personally, I have dark mode enabled on my iPhone device. When you enable Dark Mode, the white background changes to a black background and the font color changes from black to white. In low light conditions, you...
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Improve Your opinion About Yourself
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/improve-your-opinion-about-yourself/ It’s interesting how we find it so important what people think of us. No wonder social media is so popular. We truly value other people’s opinions of us. It goes so far that we carefully craft posts and photos with the...
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Imagine Your Smartphone is a Human Being
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/imagine-your-smartphone-is-a-human-being/ The smartphone is a powerful device. We keep thinking we are its master while unfortunately, it is often the other way around. The smartphone essentially is our master and we are its slave. We shouldn’t be too surprised,...
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Generate Energy, Curiosity and Excitement
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/generate-energy-curiousity-and-excitement/ Most of us know the saying: in order to be interesting, be interested When I ask you: what excites you in life? Do you have a clear answer? Not everyone does. We spend a lot of our time on media, activities, and people,...
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Approach Your Partner Wisely When He Or Se Uses Social Media Too Much
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/approach-your-partner-wisely-when-he-or-se-uses-social-media-too-much/ There are many stories of couples that are obsessed with their screens. When both partners are mindlessly scrolling, swiping, browsing, and typing without any real awareness, then this...
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Most Push Notifications Are Far From Important
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/most-push-notifications-are-far-from-important/ We all know that feeling when a notification comes in. We feel that anticipation of what could be… It’s a joyful feeling (because of the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine). Who has sent me a message! What…
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Don’t Focus on Educating Online Haters and Bullies
https://www.socialmediabreakup.com/dont-focus-on-educating-online-haters-and-bullies/ While we can easily expose ourselves on social media, it is daunting to show some levels of vulnerability. Posting photos online is not the hard part. There is an endless number of filters and effects you can...
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Recharge Yourself First, Then Your Device
Many of us walk with our phone chargers on us. The idea of walking around with a dead phone is unfathomable. What would we do with ourselves if the battery of our phones ran out!? That feeling of nomophobia (no mobile phone phobia) is one we are eager to avoid at all costs. Human beings can be…
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Be in Awe of Life & Appreciate Your Time More
Every single activity you take on, how petty that might be, will one day be your last. We live our lives like it is something we have to get through. Do we really appreciate what we have now in this very moment? As Albert Einstein once said, “There are two ways to live your life. One is as though...
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Be Open to Connection and Fire Up Your Curiosity to Beat Loneliness
The wiser we become, the more we realize that experiences bring us long-term happiness, not gadgets, items, or things. We can experience with the help of things, but “a thing” in and of itself won’t bring long-term happiness, only short-term. Now that we are home a lot, we can find happiness and...
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Enable Screen Lock in WhatsApp for Extra Security
Afraid that someone will access your WhatsApp when your phone is unlocked? You can add an additional layer of security to your WhatsApp account. What about the possibility of only accessing your WhatsApp with your face or finger? Depending on the availability of the option Touch ID or Face ID on...
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Make Your Shoulder Angel and Devil Befriend Each Other
When I was very young I watched Tom & Jerry, Cartoon Network cartoons like Dexter’s Laboratory and Johnny Bravo, and Hanna-Barbera cartoons like the Flinstones and the Jetsons. Many funny moments stuck with me, including a shoulder angel and shoulder devil bickering about what the character…
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Declare Out Loud Why You’re On Your Phone
A strategy you can introduce is to declare out loud to yourself why you are going for your smartphone. Your actions should be intentional. So be clear about why you go for your phone and what apps you are planning to use. If you are in a situation where you are not alone and you don’t feel...
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Start With Daily Mini Digital Detoxes
We are very ambitious when we think about introducing change in our lives. Oftentimes we declare bold statements like cutting our social media use by 50% or using a dumbphone that will replace our smartphone. These declarations are made with the best of intentions of course. Unfortunately, we…
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Delete News Apps From Your Smartphone
Many times I’ve said it: I understand why many people are reluctant to delete all social media apps. There are many reasons why one wants to keep using social media apps. Although it is a strategy to simply delete at least 1 social media app, let’s try something else. Game apps have no reason of...
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Check Your Social Media Notifications Every 30 Minutes
The idea to disable all your social media push notifications can be daunting. How would you know instantly what has happened in your account right? Of course, we can debate about the importance of being constantly up to date, (and I do talk about this in many other videos), but let’s focus now on...
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Airplane Mode VS Do Not Disturb VS Disabling Mobile Data
Airplane mode and Do Not Disturb have both their unique benefits. We all know we have to enable airplane mode when we’re on the plane and it is about to take off. Nowadays we are sometimes allowed to enable Wi-Fi so there is access to the internet up in the air. Nevertheless, no one can call us…
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Invest Your Time Instead of Just Spending Your Time
In an earlier blog, I mentioned how time is our most valuable currency. The more we become aware of this, the more we won’t allow ourselves to scroll our lives away. There will be a day where we wish we had more time. If we can envision ourselves in the future looking back on us, that future...
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Dopamine Rush Results in a False Sense of Accomplishment
In a previous blog, I wrote about the brain chemical dopamine. Dopamine is the reason why we can’t wait to run to our device when it demands our attention. Nothing can stop us when we want to grab our phone. Our full focus is immediately on our device. Since the reward center in your brain…
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Control Your Screen Time With an Accountability Partner
The battle that we constantly fight our entire lives, is the one between our shoulder angel and shoulder devil. I never forget those cartoons like the Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry where you see the shoulder angel and should devil quibbling about what the character should be doing. Fascinating....
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Dopamine Makes You Feel Excited to Use Your Phone
If you’ve done some research on phone addiction, then you probably came across dopamine. Neurons that release dopamine are activated when we expect to receive a reward. The reason why we grab our phones quickly, is that the chemical dopamine is released, a key neurotransmitter for regulating our...
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Set Time Blocks For Your Social Media Use
Time is our most valuable currency. Time is literally ticking away and every single second that is passing is forever gone. Our lives equate to an hourglass, slowly we’re running out of time. The big mystery though is how fast time is actually is running. For 40 years? For 10 years? For 18…
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Use YouTube Features to Help You Stay in Control
Apps have their own features that help you to use the app more mindfully. The YouTube app is one of them. Multiple times have I mentioned that YouTube is my most challenging app. YouTube offers loads of content including informative, educative and inspiring content. But whatever can be found on...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Learn how to:•Beat phone and social media addiction•Spend your time, attention and energy efficiently, instead of letting our device drain us•Use your smartphone effectively and efficiently•Use social media apps, mail apps, and Instant Messaging apps wiselyAnd:•Simple tricks that make using your phone less compulsive, and give you back control•The detrimental effects of excessive phone and social media use, and how to reduce that without giving up on social media entirely•Why it seems impossible to stop using your phone•Facts about social media and phone addictionAnd much more!
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Johan
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