A Week Off Social Media (opens in new tab)

One week ago, I started a one-month break (or 40-day “fast”) from social media. I thought I’d have some mild FOMO for the first three days or so. Turns out, I’ve had none. So it seems to be going fine so far. A week isn’t a long enough trial though; let’s see how things look in about five more weeks. Technically, my 40-day “fast” ends on April 5th, Easter Sunday. But April 1st will be a solid six weeks off social media, plenty of time to decide whether to stay decoupled or to push the nuke-fr...