5 Things I Learnt from a Social Media Detox

Charlie E Hyde
4 min readFeb 28, 2022

Sound familiar: mindless scrolling of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok whilst you’re watching TV, in a meeting, on the toilet? Yup same here. I found myself in a mindless scrolling habit and it was getting me down. I was stuck in a rut of not enjoying social media but unable to tear myself away from it. A pacifier that was no longer pacifying.

It was time to do something about. 10-day social media detox. Yup that’s right, I deleted all social media for 10 days. Here’s the five things I learnt from that.

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Charlie E Hyde

Life hacks from Burnout recovery. Self-improvement and productivity nerd. Beating toxic productivity one post at a time