Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
This part really resonated with me:<p>&gt; Consider that the ability to concentrate without distraction on hard tasks is becoming increasingly valuable in an increasingly complicated economy. Social media weakens this skill because it’s engineered to be addictive. The more you use social media in the way it’s designed to be used — persistently throughout your waking hours — the more your brain learns to crave a quick hit of stimulus at the slightest hint of boredom.<p>I&#x27;ve recently been finding it really hard to concentrate on my work and I genuinely think this might be the reason. I find myself compulsively opening twitter and tumblr and scrolling through for ages before realising that literally none of it is interesting. I&#x27;m just scrolling past brightly coloured images and auto-playing videos while completely distracted and detached from the real world.<p>I agree with the sentiment elsewhere in these comments that the solution isn&#x27;t to completely delete your accounts (I think they can have some value when used in moderation), but rather to change the way I use them. Maybe deleting the native apps and using the webapps will raise the barrier to entry high enough that I&#x27;ll only use them when there&#x27;s actually something I want to do on them.<p>As for Facebook, I deleted that a few months ago and my quality of life instantly increased.