How do you live mindfully with social media? What are your favorite apps? Which ones do you tend to avoid? How do these platforms benefit you? Have you taken notice of how social media negatively impacts you (mentally, physically, or emotionally)? How do you monitor your usage and input? Join us in Episode 006 as we try to untangle our own ideas about this powerful tool for connection and engagement.

Advice Not Given: 

• Can you identify your triggers on social media? What are they? 
• Unfollow people or accounts that make you feel badly.
• Do you feel more sensitive to the impact of social media within your personal or professional sphere?
• Can you identify how each social media platform serves or does not serve you? 
• What are the boundaries or parameters do you have for yourself on social media? Allocate time windows. Turn off notifications. Silence the group. Circumvent. Curate your social media with those people or influences that don’t uplift you.
• Use apps or settings like Screen Time, Flora, Be Focused, or Airplane mode for productivity.
• At what age do you allow your kids a smart or dumb phone? Social media accounts? How do you regulate your kids and yourself? 
• Social media and parenting-- YOU DO YOU! Don’t worry about what everyone else is doing. Use your instincts.
• Social media regulation tips: go on a hiatus; set hours; use phone settings; use grayscale; dock your phone away from where you sleep.
• Use apps to help but don’t allow them to suck you into a state of hyper-vigilance.
• With your social media use,  keep it real, keep it kind, and keep it brief. (Kellie) Use office hours and follow them. (Claire)

MENTIONS:

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Collin Kartchner: Save the Kids Campaign

The NoPhone Air

Social Media Copies Gambling Methods to Create Psychological Cravings

Change Your Phone to Grayscale to Combat Phone Addiction

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