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What I Learned From Quitting Facebook For 6 Months
Plus a few other social network apps that were sucking my soul
For context in 2018 after my Bachelor’s degree, I decided to shift my academic focus away from music, something I had been dedicated to for pretty much my whole life. To the surprise of many, I took a completely left turn and signed up for a Master’s degree in marketing. I was able to get in based on a related module, but that’s another story in itself.
The degree was unlike any other challenge I set myself in life, being far more academic and research based than I imagined, which is why I fell in love with it all. However, I quickly came to the realisation that I was spending a ridiculous amount of time glued to my phone due to the lack of time I was able to dedicate to writing my assignments.
While the average screen time among us Brits is around 3 hours and 23 minutes per day, which is still crazy to think about, I was spending an eye watering 5–6 hours on my phone per day, almost double the average. There were also no illusions as to which apps I was spending most of this time on: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube.
So for the latter half of my degree, a period of 6 months, in an effort to carve out the time required to complete my thesis I decided to delete my account…
