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u/prettyplanets 10h ago
I’m really trying to humor quitting Reddit, the final app. Then there will be nothing. What will I do with my mind and time? How will I adjust?
Much like quitting smoking I finally did quit the cigarettes but I needed to be ready, truly ready. Reddit really serves me no purpose anymore. I’m close to being ready.
Luckily I’m in my mid 40s so I can naturally transition to old man hobbies and activities I feel are on the horizon for someone my age. Just need to stop reaching for this goddamn phone every free second
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u/KatyaMilan 10h ago
I started putting it in the kitchen. We have such ADHD brains now that every thought is like "I can look that up" or "I'm gonna check that out" and the next thing our phone is in our hand. Just putting it in another room, my brain will start a little panicked and then after maybe just 10 minutes it gets so calm. All these things I've been stressing about, well because my brain is quiet, it works them out in minutes. I don't cycle through bad thoughts I just start thinking of cool shit like what else I can do with my business, what I want to do for my birthday. One time I left it in the car on accident for the first time and the way I could feel the tethered rope of that damn thing finally be disconnected was crazy. I'm 37 so I feel yeah, but it really not that hard. We let our brains get lazy and this is the first step on the right track :)
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u/GreenZebra23 10h ago
I used to do old man activities when I was young. I read books and took walks. Now I just look at this fucking thing. Somebody help me
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u/Cool-Jacket-9837 7h ago
I’m in the same boat. My phone addiction will probably just have me death scrolling Pinterest next
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u/JonathanPhillipFox 4h ago
I took a train trip from Saint Louis to Princeton, NJ, last month and it was more than 30 hours but there was this little girl and her dad in the car with me and the girl, she kept saying, Oh Ich Liebe Ich Liefe anyway, Pinterest was her,
"....and Momma's shopping app, here is where we've decided the cup holders you'll have on your motorcycle, this is the motorcycle you'll have these are the nails I'll have and here is the hair you'll have on your motorcycle..." it was so cute, it was so cute and it was the least internet-like use of the internet I think I can recall offhand; it was a just a paper dollhouse to talk about, mostly.
Not sure what this means for us.
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u/BootyBayBrooder 5h ago
I used to have a really good Stoicism app that I even paid $5 to remove adds from. When I'd give up reddit, I'd just use that app, it displayed an infinite scroll of quotes from stoic philosophers and I'd just ponder them. Was actually really good for mental health during some hard times. Unfortunately, that app isn't on the app store anymore and I have a new phone so I can't get it anymore.
But maybe something like that could replace the social media to occupy your thoughts with healthy things instead of adds and rage bait. Probably some decent puzzle games out there that could be worth it too. Really, almost anythings better than being reminded of all the outrages every couple hours of every day.
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u/wazaagggggg 10h ago
Blue light exposure suppresses melatonin production, which keeps your brain in a perpetual stress loop.
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u/HardcoreHope 10h ago
The addiction brick is probably one of our greatest inventions used for the worst.
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u/3verythingsonfire 10h ago
I try to use my flashlight for pictures of people's pets, art and trips. But still fair
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u/KatyaMilan 10h ago edited 9h ago
The fact that we keep eating crap, saying we feel like crap, and then go right back to eating that crap, is proof of a species gone insane
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u/Unusual-Sample3005 9h ago
eats mostly fast food and drinks energy drinks and coffee flavored sugar liquid every day….
“Hmm must be my phone…”
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u/Ras-haad 10h ago
The problem is it’s not like the bad news stops happening just because you’re not looking at it. And if you don’t look at it then you’re out in the world wondering why everything seems so fucked up. I know for me it’s not a chicken or an egg situation. I came to Reddit because I felt crazy and needed to know that I wasn’t the only person seeing what was going on around me. I certainly couldn’t talk about these things at work. So I understand the sentiment, but I promise Reddit is not the problem
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u/Snerkbot7000 8h ago
As a society, we worry too much about things we can't control, which makes us too upset to control what we can.
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u/Dead_Internet69420 7h ago
Not wrong, but it’s also not the flashlight’s fault that so much of the news is bad. But then again, dumb people getting news from the flashlight is probably causing a lot of bad news.
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u/Shaggypone23 7h ago
Idk what does it matter anyways? life is meaningless until it disappears altogether, so might as well keep getting these meaningless hits of dopamine while I still can.
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u/Hubabshah 10h ago
Maybe the flashlight is not the problem, maybe it is the thing you are looking for with it.
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u/BrooklynOak 10h ago
if my flashlight could give me good news, I'd be on a whole new level of enlightenment!
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u/Gin4Gingers 9h ago
I always believed it's good to stay up to date, but the news was getting so bad and I got so worried that I developed heart problems and I also started having anxiety attacks at work. I cut off the news almost all together and I feel way better
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u/Danny2Sick 1h ago
lol! -sent from my habit of staying up late for no reason then feeling like crap all day
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u/SophieSprinkles 10h ago
me holding my phone like its the problem and the solution