Breaking up with screens
The Monday discussion
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been deleting Instagram and BlueSky off my phone over the weekends. I have to confess I didn’t come up with the idea. This move was inspired by
, a queen of boundary setting.And I’ve learned that I don’t really miss them that much.
It’s inspired me to put my phone away when I am with friends — turning myself on airplane mode and refusing to Google answers during conversations. I recently befriended someone who only texts once a day! Imagine that. He only goes on his phone once a day.
His field is Medieval literature, so as I pointed out, there are not a lot of new developments in that profession he needs to keep track of.