What Happens When You Return To Social Media After 1,000 Days Off (It's Not What I Expected)
I quit social media for a thousand days. And then I came back. This is the part of the story I didn't tell in the first video because it hadn't happened yet. The return. The re-entry. What it actually felt like to open the apps again after that long away. What had changed in the platforms while I was gone. What had changed in me. And what I found out about my relationship with social media that I couldn't have found out without the thousand days away and then the coming back.
In this video I give you the honest account of what it felt like and why the craving came back faster and stronger than I expected. What had actually changed in the platforms in a thousand days and what that change says about the direction things are moving. What I found out about what I actually missed versus what I thought I'd miss, and why the gap between those two things was the most useful information the whole experiment produced. How the relationship with the platforms was genuinely different on the other side of the thousand days, not healed, not fixed, but conscious in a way it hadn't been before. What I actually do now. And what I'd tell someone considering their own version of this experiment.
This isn't the clean triumphant exit story. It's the messier and more honest one. I came back. The relationship is ongoing and complicated and still requires attention. And I think that's actually the more useful version of this video for most people because most people aren't going to quit forever, and the question of how to live with these things rather than either surrendering to them or running from them is the question worth actually answering.
Chapters:
00:00 The Return Nobody Expected
01:19 Why I Came Back
02:31 I Was Wrong
04:34 What Had Actually Changed In The Platforms
06:51 What I Found Out About What I Actually Missed
09:00 The Changed Relationship (What A Thousand Days Actually Did)
10:36 What I Actually Do Now
12:22 What I'd Tell Someone Considering Trying Quitting Social Media
14:16 The Honest Conclusion
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