Hey all,
After reading some of the posts on here, I felt inspired and went and cut down my FB to just 3 friends (who live in foreign countries and can't reach them easily outside FB). Everyone else knows they can reach me by text/phone easily, and I have to say-I haven't missed it one bit.
As a grad student, I'm still a part of my class FB group (key for staying up to date on what's happening with school) and in a few professional groups, but the only things that show up on my news feed now are a) new discoveries/reports in my field and b) updates from my class FB group about anything big going on in school.
I "surf" FB for maybe 5 minutes every 3 days, and I am so glad I did this.
In addition, my class has a group chat that it uses, and my phone would go off repeatedly when I was trying to study, distracting me and preventing producitivty. I shut down the notifications for the group chat and only check that once every evening, and things have been so much better.
Submitted November 11, 2017 at 06:34PM by Thegoat1112 http://ift.tt/2yuJE8P
