Social Media is Down Today & I Feel Super Free?! Thoughts on Social Media Culture Right Now

YOU Guys omg. I have been wanting to sit down and generate a blog site submit for days now and right now is the perfect option, because… Instagram, FB, and WhatsApp are all totally down and I have a emotion a lot of us really do not know what to do with ourselves. 😂

It is humorous since I experienced an IG post all queued up to go this early morning in my drafts folder on Instagram from my weekend in Sedona. I took the weekend off of social media which was full heaven, and I was sensation pretty ambivalent about coming back to it. I had that odd emotion above the weekend of just currently being repelled by wanting at Instagram… I wasn’t emotion it at all. That goes for messages, scrolling, publishing, all of it.

But today I was ready and enthusiastic to write-up and share from the weekend. We went to my cousin’s marriage ceremony above the weekend and it was so gorgeous, and we received plenty of cute photographs of this quickly expanding baby bump. I could as nicely share some below mainly because who is aware of when social will be back again on for me to submit it there. 😉

And now it’s 3:15pm, and as the day has long gone on I have started out to truly feel actually cost-free without feeling sure to verify my social media. It’s different for me than it is for a whole lot of you studying in all probability, because heading on Instagram is in no way just fun leisure time for me, it’s usually exciting and interesting but it’s also get the job done. I have to be so on. I get client assistance inquiries, health and fitness associated issues, podcast inquiries, I want to make guaranteed I repost anyone, I have to don’t forget to write-up all of my commitments and low cost codes, you know — it’s not like the perform is Tricky labor but it’s just my work, so all of the usual inner thoughts come together with that. Inspiration, enthusiasm, joy, tension, overwhelm, creativity, strategies, jumbled ideas, the thoughts that appear together with the occasional super suggest comment or cyber bully. The checklist goes on.

I determined to choose right now as a sign to work on some matters I have been putting off for a extended whilst, namely a little something I talked about in my new SOLO episode on the podcast!! Any guesses? A trace for you… it has to do with writing, and it has nothing at all to do with my existence. Guesses underneath! I want to listen to!

And the fact is, I have been capable to get into the deepest operate move ever with my writing devoid of the continual interruption of checking social media. I am not by any means declaring that I don’t want social media to come back again — what I am expressing is that it’s a superior reminder that I have management above my time, and breaking the social media dependancy and scrolling/checking behavior will be substantial in my efficiency and pleasure shifting ahead. It’s certainly section of the “next section of TBB,” one thing I have been conversing about for very some time now.

It is also amusing since I have taken substantially far more time off of IG intentionally than just these several hrs that it’s been down today, but there is some thing so considerably distinctive about social media making that decision for me somewhat than me making the conclusion deliberately. It delivers up a whole lot of issues for me… and maybe it is bringing them up for you too so I’ll share them beneath:

– if social media have been to go absent tomorrow, how would that make me really feel? What would I do?! How would I keep related with my community? How can I set some resources in location to make certain my local community can keep on being connected to me if social media did in actuality go absent?

– does it really really feel great to me to have the bulk of my vocation reliant on a platform that I have no manage in excess of?

– for what cause is the application down nowadays? Of system it is interior concerns and a server error etc… but is there some thing else at participate in in this article? If so, is this [Facebook, Instagram] truly a organization I truly feel fantastic about running my business enterprise on?

– what would I do with my time if there was no social media? If that helps make me come to feel fantastic, how can I do much more of that now?!

– how is this internet issue related to what’s likely on in the entire world ideal now, in the cosmos, and in astrology? There are so many interesting items taking place suitable now from today’s New Moon to substantial astrological shifts going on on earth. It offers you a Lot to assume about.

In the end, even though I want I could connect with all of you fellas on Instagram now I am so grateful for this expertise since it reminds me how crucial this Weblog hub is for our neighborhood! I used to generate on the weblog just about every working day, but when I begun micro-blogging on Instagram many many years ago & also podcasting each week, the website posts commenced to dwindle. Also, I am not the most routine or structured particular person so each individual “weekly routine” I have tried using to keep with web site posts has in no way genuinely panned out longterm. 😂

This morning when I was journaling I wrote down about 10-15 strategies for impending site posts — about almost everything from well being to veganism to pregnancy to juicing to additional personal own life updates. This is this kind of a superior reminder for me to return to the website, and consistently attract my group (you fellas!) to the weblog, due to the fact I have so much a lot more command in excess of what occurs in this space than I do on social media platforms.

Also there is a greater difficulty at engage in with social media platforms and I am just heading to occur out and say it. The censorship is out of control. I recognized just lately that the much more I began to like and comment on posts that were not in agreement with mainstream rhetoric about selected items going on in the world appropriate now, the a lot more I commenced to observe my possess engagement go down. This has been occurring above the previous year or two, but even in the matter of the previous couple weeks by itself I have viewed it get an particularly enormous dip. I do not speak about quite a few controversial matters on my Instagram by itself for the reason that it does not sense like an energetically safe and sound place for me to do so, but I really feel here on my have platform (this web site) I can say a great deal more. And in owing time when it feels ideal, I am confident I will.

In any case, no subject WHAT you believe… the censorship is out of freaking manage. I noticed anyone write-up about a DYSON VACCUM on their IG tales, and their publish acquired flagged with a connection to the CDC speaking about va**cines since IG didn’t understand the difference between that phrase and the phrase vacuum. 😵‍💫 Not to mention, I am absolutely sure you have all observed what’s happening with the “natural immunity” hashtag. Never even get me commenced. Talking about health and wellness will always be my enthusiasm, so that’s not going everywhere from me. 🙂

All over again, no make any difference what you consider, never you obtain this a minimal bit funky!?! I want to reside in a globe where by independence of speech is highly regarded. Freedom in typical. And maybe the way I am feeling these days is that with out the anxiety of what to say/what not to say on social media, I am experience a minor or a lot bit more free of charge.

ALSO, I want to add this notice. I am so really grateful for social media. This is not a publish bashing on social media at all. I are unable to consider all of the presents social media has introduced into my lifestyle — particularly, all of you. I like our group so substantially. What I don’t like are some of the several ways that it has modified above the years and built it harder and tougher to connect in an authentic way — that is all. 🙂

Enable me know how you are sensation. 🙂 & also, I hope you are finding to fill your day with some extra issues that mild you up without the need of the time that would ordinarily be spent scrolling, putting up, interacting on there!!

P.S. Site feedback will be so of utmost value on this put up since there is nowhere else for us to go over, haha!! LMK it alllll underneath!! ILY!! Also depart publish requests mainly because I am coming in sizzling with the new posts, that is for absolutely sure. 🙂