I will be attempting to do the Easy option with screen time but I’ll also be staying off 3 forms of social media, because I want to focus more on the present and not waste so much time scrolling.

I met my goals for screen time, but I did not stay off my 3 planned forms of social media. This is because I primarily communicate with some of my friends through Instagram, and I needed to use this platform to talk with them over the weekend. I think that for the future, I’ll want to either let them know beforehand that I won’t be on Instagram, or switch to texting while I’m detoxing. Besides that, I found this to be really challenging because I didn’t know that I spent all of my little moments of downtime on TikTok. I ended up downloading the Refocus app, and blocked myself from using these apps. This app really helped me realize how many pickups I had just to check for notifications from my various apps as well as how many times I would pick up my phone for minutes of social media because I couldn’t sit and not be on my phone. After this detox I realized that it was a bigger problem for me than I originally thought. I will be keeping the Refocus app on my phone so I limit my social media use throughout the day and replace that time with either planning, cleaning my space, or catching up on little assignments. On Monday, I blocked TikTok from 11-5, where I found myself picking up the most, and this really helped me stay off my phone in general, so I will be continuing to keep these apps blocked. I also deleted several apps on my phone that I found I wasn’t using and kept notifying me. I think these steps will really help me focus on being in the present and to not seek to waste time on my phone. Overall, this detox was a very eye-opening experience and I’m going to take what I learned and apply it to my relationship with my phone from now on.