Day 7, I made it!!!! Wow, seven whole days without social media. And while it may not seem like that long of a time frame in the past seven days I've had a chance to reflect on how I'd like to utilize social media in a more productive way ( which I go into greater detail about in the video below.) Ultimately this past week has been a real back and forth about my feelings on social media. While I  believe it has it's uses I think some practices on social media can be unhealthy. In the end no matter what your 'go to' reason for social media is just like any good snack food, consume in moderation. I think this little experiment showed me that it's really just all about balance. I believe that if we can straddle that line between sharing great content with one another while being actively engaged IRL than we'll have a better online and all around life experience.

Even though I'm not very far along in this journey it's actually getting easier. I for sure thought I'd be struggling without scrolling my Facebook and Instagram feeds to start and end my days. But it's actually pretty freeing. For instance, I was out to dinner and actually had conversations, found out what was going on in people's lives and even paid attention to the basketball game on at the bar we were at. I think what I'm starting to realize is that it's nice not to be tethered by our devices. It almost brings back this state of normalcy, back to how things use to be.

Alright guys, so here we go with a recap of events from day one of no social media. So last night I deleted Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Snap Chat off of my phone. Not gonna lie,that was pretty hard to to do. I kept clicking open my phone to go into those app so as crutch I just kept checking my email on my phone.  But after an hour or so stopped wanting to obsessively check my feeds and went on to watch some tv, play a game on my phone and cap off my evening with some reading ( I'm int he middle of Trevor Noah's Born A Crime, highly recommend).