I love this!! Super important to address. I also was terminally online by the time I was 11 years old. Now, almost 24, I’ve made a lot of radical changes to how I use my smartphone and the internet in general. I don’t want to live my life online. I want the romance of reading books and listening to music in analogue, idk, the internet takes away so much…
this is so inspiring because in order to quit the internet i actually have to pick up legitimate hobbies if i want to follow ur extensive admin to-do lists. but i think i can do it..i want to believe in myself.
I love the phrase "terminally online" bc it's so accurate & encapsulates the suffocating feeling of hopeless addiction lol. Lately I've been finding it most helpful to find things that I like more than being online (getting back into reading has been life-changing; I'm studying librarianship & I've decided to go gung-ho on the whole dark academia aesthetic & wouldn't be able to respect myself if I wasn't reading, and it has been very beneficial) I'm still struggling with the whole checking my phone in the morning & before bed like it's the morning paper though! For ages I've known I really ought to try a week without it but the idea makes me uncomfortable - a sign that I really need it, surely hahah.
An interesting thing I've noticed is that as more discourse pops up around this & more people become aware (great) I've seen attempts to capitalise on it monetarily - I briefly considered buying a dumb phone for this purpose (and there are some expensive dumb phones out there made for this purpose!). Not that it's necessarily a terrible idea to have a phone that physically helps but I do find it interesting how I had the urge to spend money as my first step! Something to be said there abt the similarity to buying new gym clothes when starting to exercise, wanting the aesthetic without the substance+work, etc.
I love this!! Super important to address. I also was terminally online by the time I was 11 years old. Now, almost 24, I’ve made a lot of radical changes to how I use my smartphone and the internet in general. I don’t want to live my life online. I want the romance of reading books and listening to music in analogue, idk, the internet takes away so much…
this is so inspiring because in order to quit the internet i actually have to pick up legitimate hobbies if i want to follow ur extensive admin to-do lists. but i think i can do it..i want to believe in myself.
I love the phrase "terminally online" bc it's so accurate & encapsulates the suffocating feeling of hopeless addiction lol. Lately I've been finding it most helpful to find things that I like more than being online (getting back into reading has been life-changing; I'm studying librarianship & I've decided to go gung-ho on the whole dark academia aesthetic & wouldn't be able to respect myself if I wasn't reading, and it has been very beneficial) I'm still struggling with the whole checking my phone in the morning & before bed like it's the morning paper though! For ages I've known I really ought to try a week without it but the idea makes me uncomfortable - a sign that I really need it, surely hahah.
An interesting thing I've noticed is that as more discourse pops up around this & more people become aware (great) I've seen attempts to capitalise on it monetarily - I briefly considered buying a dumb phone for this purpose (and there are some expensive dumb phones out there made for this purpose!). Not that it's necessarily a terrible idea to have a phone that physically helps but I do find it interesting how I had the urge to spend money as my first step! Something to be said there abt the similarity to buying new gym clothes when starting to exercise, wanting the aesthetic without the substance+work, etc.