I am yapping too much. TLDR: I am chronically online on Instagram, and on my smartphone. Time to fix it soon.

I told myself I'd make entries here but didn't do it because I got so sidetracked with my crazy busy and stressful life, but now I am forcing myself to stop being sidetracked...So here goes. Hello hello! I think I'll be writing about my daily stuff here. I would make it some sort of blog, but a diary feels more needed for myself right now.



Lately, I've been really wanting to start practicing a lot more digital minimalism. I have been thinking about this for a while, it's always kind of on my mind as of recently. I feel as if I spend way too much time on my phone, scrolling and scrolling and wasting my time, or making myself sad or upset with the things I see and read, or just getting sad and upset due to thinking about the fact that I spend so much of my time wasting my day on my phone and on stupid apps. I very much want to make the swap to using just a dumbphone, my computer desktop/laptop, my iPod and my Kindle, and ditch my smartphone. But it's such a hard swap to do all at once, at least it feels that way. Taking a step in the right direction would be deleting most of my social media, but that's a big step, because I fear that I am addicted to them; looking at what others in my life are doing, or doomscrolling, or just reposting stupid things I think are funny.



It's so hard for me to decide on this. I want to stay "relevant" with others in my life, and with things I find funny or amusing or cool, and talk to my friends who only have Instagram and other socials. It's also going to be hard when trying to stay updated with my job schedule, or keep in contact with people who use their smartphones frequently like I do currently. But I also want to be off of all of that, and detox myself from all of the stupid slop I consume. The internet that I want to be using is all NOT on social media. I am a huge lover of everything small web, like the community on Neocities, and cool small websites with communities like this one. Swapping to just using browser-based socials and sites like that would be so ideal. I don't think I could give up Reddit or Discord, just because I do not hate using them (especially Discord, since most of my friends and I talk there). It'll also be hard to ditch Spotify. But I do very much want to give up the rest.



Maybe this will happen soon, maybe I'll put it into motion after researching more about getting a dumbphone set up with some sort of data so I can still call and text. I really miss when I lived more digitally minimalistic-ally when I was younger. During the quarantine

Testing, testing!!!! This is so cool!!!!! So very excited to see how this awesome site develops ^_^