A year and counting

It has been almost a solid year since I deleted social media apps from my phone. The last post I posted on instagram was on the 1st of August 2017 and it was not even a photo, it was a cut-out from an article that shows swimmers seems to have younger organs than their real age lol.

I guess many of you are wondering (if my blogger readers still exist) why I quit social media. There's a long blog post of why here --->LINK TO BLOG OF WHY I DELETED MY SOCIAL MEDIA APPS .

Many of you ghost readers out there up to this point may be wondering (after reading the blog post perhaps) what has progressed over the year of quitting social media. To be honest, I think the most time consuming social media would be instagram. I kinda find instagram to be a short form acronym of "Instant Gratification". After deleting Instagram, I sort of lost the will of trying to pose like an idiot to get the perfect photo to show the world how awesome my life is. I simply mastered a part of not giving a f*ck. Like seriously. Just walk around an art expo or an event or somesort, people just dont absorb the atmosphere anymore, their heads are looking down on their phone or forcing their friends to take the best photo pose of them so that they could upload to social media and prove the self worthy and gain fake social validation from the internet community. Furthermore, I dont have much more free time rather than trying to upload and insta-story or somesort. Further down the line, I also dont know whats going on with the people I follow on instagram, There was an instance that I had no idea my friend just had a kid. I found out he had a kid when he came by and we had real social interaction at a restaurant that he brought his wife and kid to eat dinner together and I was like WHOAAAA SINCE WHEN YOU HAD A KID? lol I would say, that it is sort of a drawbacks of you not knowing of your friends that you care who they seem to exclusively upload their life progress only through instagram (lol, such an exclusive breed). I seriously have a lot more to rant about instagram, but I guess you all would get the point by now (gosh i just love typing with my new mechanical keyboard hahaha)

Anyway, you may also be wandering, what about your other social media apps, twitter and facebook? Yes, I deleted them too. Though I only open them with my phone browser. My facebook basically only has feeds of news from pages that I follow and to check for wedding invitations. I basically un-followed everyone on facebook to appear on my feed, though I still remain friends with them. I occasionally share interesting news and mostly photos of cute cats. Talking about weddings, there some instances I had no idea that some of my facebook friends got married due to not following them in my feed and they did not invite me to their wedding (lol).

So, what about my twitter account? I muted all annoying feeds (sorry) and mostly interesting news on my feed. 

I do get stuck sometimes in the never ending black hole of twitter and facebook even though looking at them via web browser, but that only happens when I am being an arse towards myself and not thinking of the greater good I could do with all that time. As soon as I snap out of it, I mostly do something productive. But the bright side of not using the app, it gives some sort of resistance to like stop using it and you dont get the full addictive experience if you use it on browser. Furthermore, you dont get instant notifications. Notifications is the devil, its the trigger to go deep into the bottomless abyss. Its hard to resist that red dot with the number inside.

Now, at this stage, you may be wondering, what has happened so far with all the free time?

Lets make a list

1-I get free time (obviously)

2-I stop thinking of taking photos of every activity which are deemed cool to post on social media

3-I discovered the sweetness of not giving a f*ck

4-Almost a million ringgit in debt for 35 years haha 

5-Got on to many phases in life

6-Discovered big challenges to overcome my worsening anxiety, faced it and said f*ck you anxiety

7-Managed to finished off a lot of books.

8-Discovered weekends alone at home can be quite funnnn haha

9-Swam a 7 km swimathon (again) and did worst timing than previously did two years ago by two minutes lol

10-Got on to much more serious phases in life (ehem ehem)

11-Forgave people for how much of an ass they are and pretty much say f*ck you to them

12-Cursed much more than before

13-Care about people who really matter

14-The government changed 

15-Discovered DIY home improvement stuffs and failed miserably at it and learned the hard way to resolve it lol

I think the list could go on and on and on....

Anyway, the only reason I feel like writing lots and lots again, Dr.M said, one way to keep your brain sharp is to read and write. I hope I get to live until 90 plus like him. 

Thats all for now..... Shall write some more in the near future since I just love tapping my mechanical keyboard lol