I deleted my Facebook app on my phone - and I'm still alive!

    This post is just like a late-night journal sharing with you something I have done for 4 days and I have felt immediate benefits - deleting my Facebook app on my phone. 
    Not because I bear any grudge against Facebook but because it used to be my main source of digital distraction. So if you happen to have any source of digital distraction but you are suffering from doomscrolling and procrastinating and then feeling guilty all the time, I hope my sharings in this post will help you a bit and give you some motivation to completely say goodbye to it. But please note that my writing does not include any scientific evidence or studies or quotes so you may find it unconvincing.

My story: I decided to delete my FB app on my phone four days ago as I have noticed that I have spent way tooooo much time scrolling its arresting reels and endless newsfeed. As I want break this cycle and save my mental health, I made it harder to do it (the lesson I learnt from some Youtubers and they said this tip comes from the book "Atomic Habits"). After deleting it, the only way to use FB for me is to wait to turn on my laptop, then insert the password, click on the browser icon, then search for FB.com. Oh no, too lazy for too many steps like that.  and you know the reels mode on laptop interface is quite like ... just not as appealing as the perfectly-fit-to-the-screen reels on the phone. Although I still use this on laptop twice to three times a day to check for any new messages or notifications from my favorite pages, stop scrooling reels is a huge huge progress for me. 

The results: I have quitted doomscrolling videos and reels on FB for 4 days, and hope it will last longer. And I think it must be like that because too much free time emerges when I quitted reeling, I stared this blog - which is a better option for both my mental health and productivity. Also, I have felt a substantial improvement in my mental health, no more constant comparisons, no more "That girl, that life" bombards me with their desirable-but-not-mine-so-I-feel-jealous life and I take deeper sleeps as well???

So, whatever, this is just a story from my life, and I want to write it down to archive it for my future self =). If you happen to derive anything helpful for you here, I would be very happy and thank you. So, Good night!!! (wait or maybe... Good day if you are living in the opposite hemisphere)

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  1. Miss of miscellany23 June 2025 at 17:16

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  2. Miss of miscellany23 June 2025 at 17:17

    Update corner: Today is about 1 week after I wrote this post, and congrats... I still maintained this habit (or maintain breaking the opposite negative habit?). Whatever, I can clearly feel that I have more free time on my hand (so I decided to go to a Basic photography class, hmmm... should I write a series about this too =). And "constant bombardment of extravagant profiles" has been mostly eliminated (I still expose myself to some to motivate myself a bit). I hope my future self will appreciate this and also maintain the habit =)

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