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A Few Simple Nudges to Help Reduce Social Media Use

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Social media use has been likened to addiction scientifically. My level of “addiction” isn’t very much, to be honest, but I’m still choosing to work on cutting down on the distractions that keep me from getting into “flow state” (see video at end) for some activities, rather than time poorly used. If you want to use narcotics terminology, I’m choosing prolonged highs over micro dosages of dopamine.

To help myself reduce social media use, I have compiled a short list of relatively easy and painless ways which I access it so I don’t get on social media much in the first place. They can be annoying when you’re not used to it, but hey, nobody ever said weaning oneself off anything was easy! See if some of these may work for you, and maybe pick some combination what can work for you. Any amount helps if you value your time enough!

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My 2019 JOMO Social Media Challenge

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There are many ways to reduce time on social media, from plans to the newly available time spent on your device (which maybe limited to only certain apps you can customize). I have come up with what I think is a rather simple, effective, and easily “measurable” method I know can work for me, while still be challenging since this is a challenge. Pending your “need” for social media, it may work for you as well, though you may need to do some “setting up” to help make it work.

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Will Life Seem to Go By Faster with Social Media?

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This is NOT a question for those having to live with very negative impact of social media, like cyber-bullying, but rather for those who use and like using social media.

For lots of people, when they look back on their life, the past year, season, even month or week, they have to think about where the time all went because of how busy they were. Social media doesn’t help that, taking up lots of time, possibly taking away time for those who can’t manage their time well with social media usage. A lot of social media usage is also in the moment, being fleeting memories, at best.

So I wonder if when those active users look back upon some segments of their lives, whether as a whole, a year, or whatever, if life will seem to have gone by faster? They’ll need experience with a time when social media wasn’t in their life to compare, I suppose, but maybe we’ll hear lots about those heavy users wondering where their life went one day, en masse, all of a sudden.

We’ll just to wait and find out, I suppose. Something to think about, though.

A Peanuts Special Set in Halifax and Nova Scotia?

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DHX Media based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, just acquired rights for the Peanuts and Strawberry Shortcake franchises (pending regulatory approval June 30th, CBC). As a Haligonian who LOVES the Peanuts Gang, I would love it if DHX did a special introductory episode for each of those franchises, set in Halifax to introduce us to the rest of the world, as well as celebrate the acquisition and the franchises’ new production home!

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Tsu.co – Facebooking with Pay to You and Donations to Charity

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Have you heard of a new, ethical social media site at TSU.CO? It’s a relatively new social media site that is like Facebook, except that it keeps 10% of ad revenue and gives the other 90% to its users based on traffic they generate!

That’s right. They not only give you ad revenue for your content which get viewed, but they give you the vast majority of that ad revenue!

This is NO joke! Not unless credible sources like the Huffington Post and Fast Company magazine are wrong with those linked articles and some already 4.5 million early adopters have been fooled. I highly recommend you read those linked articles to get a lot more information about the site rather than just read my quick summary. Facebook is worried about this little start-up that it has banned links to it, apparently, though saying Tsu violated its API conditions!

Then go get yourself an account, tell your friends and give it a try! It’s going to be slow going as if you don’t have many friends there already, as I don’t, it’s not going to be effective. However, that’s what happens when you’re an early adopter. Otherwise, wait till your friends have gotten a start and then give it a try. Same thing would have happened to Facebook, and is still happening to Google+.

Don’t do it for the money

While there is promise of pay for your social media content on Tsu, it isn’t going to be a lot of money unless you can get a ton of traffic! If you were able to generate that much traffic already on social media, you probably don’t need to use Tsu. No. If you try Tsu, do it for the love and values for which the site (and its creator/owner Sebastian Sobczak) stands.

For my part, I’m going to donate all the money I earn from Tsu to charity. Now, I’m no social media mogul. At this point, I don’t even have a friend on Tsu, lol. However, I’ll make that commitment right now. Maybe in a year I’ll have enough to make a donation. They have statistics and a bank account with analytics to show what you earn, which I can share as documentation. I’m fortunately enough I won’t need any revenue I might generate from Tsu so I’ll take this action to match the noble stand of the site owner.

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Tsu needs a usercode for anyone to sign up. I’m not sure why this is but I’ll just provide you with one. What else would it be except

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Give it a try and have fun!