I’m quitting social media in 2024. Care to join me?
Summary
TLDRThe speaker introduces her new challenge - 'The No Scroll Club', where she and 37 others have committed to staying off social media for the entire year of 2024. She shares the reasons why many have joined, such as regaining productivity, attention span, and meaningful connections. Reflecting on her own experience of quitting Instagram for two months, she found herself more focused, happier, and with more free time. However, she succumbed to the fear of missing out during her book launch, leading her to rejoin. Determined to reclaim those benefits, she invites viewers to join the challenge, providing steps to get started. With a mix of personal anecdotes and a call to action, the speaker aims to inspire others to break free from the endless cycle of social media scrolling.
Takeaways
- 😊 The speaker is taking a challenge to stay off social media for the entire year of 2024, joining a community called the 'No Scroll Club'.
- 🌱 After previously taking a break from social media, the speaker experienced improved productivity, well-being, and focus, inspiring this year-long challenge.
- 📵 The challenge involves leaving most social media platforms, with potential exceptions for creation, education, work, or communication purposes.
- 📨 The speaker recommends joining valuable newsletters as an alternative to staying updated through social media.
- 🧠 Many people cited reasons like diminished productivity, well-being, and innovation for joining the 'No Scroll Club'.
- ⏰ The speaker aims to reclaim free time and break the cycle of endless scrolling through this challenge.
- 🔗 The speaker encourages others to join the challenge and provides a link to sign up for the 'No Scroll Club'.
- 💻 Practical steps are outlined, such as listing social media accounts, identifying exceptions, messaging contacts, and deleting apps.
- 📺 While leaving most platforms, the speaker plans to continue posting YouTube videos with restrictions to avoid distractions.
- 🎥 The video is intentionally casual and unpolished, reflecting the speaker's desire to make joining the challenge as easy as possible.
Q & A
What is the main purpose of the video?
-The main purpose of the video is to introduce and encourage people to join the 'No Scroll Club', a challenge to stay off social media for the entire year of 2024.
Why did the creator decide to create the 'No Scroll Club'?
-The creator decided to create the 'No Scroll Club' after realizing the negative impact of excessive social media usage on productivity, well-being, and creativity. They found that taking a break from social media for 2 months led to significant improvements in their life, prompting the idea for the challenge.
What exceptions are allowed in the 'No Scroll Club'?
-The video outlines four exceptions: (A) Creation - continuing to post content but not scrolling or engaging, (B) Education - using specific platforms solely for educational purposes, (C) Work - using platforms required for work, and (D) Communication - using chat-based apps like WhatsApp or Messenger.
What steps are recommended to get started with the 'No Scroll Club' challenge?
-The recommended steps are: (1) List all social media platforms used, (2) Identify any exceptions, (3) Message people to stay in touch, (4) Join valuable newsletters, and (5) Leave social media accounts (except for exceptions) by logging out and deleting apps.
Why did the creator mention reading books and engaging in physical activities during their 2-month social media break?
-The creator mentioned reading books, swimming, stretching, and being more active socially to highlight the positive changes and habits they developed during their 2-month break from social media, emphasizing the potential benefits of the challenge.
What role did the book 'Night Shift Academy' play in the creator's decision to rejoin social media?
-The creator mentioned feeling a fear of missing out (FOMO) when their book 'Night Shift Academy' was released, as they wanted to witness any reviews, pictures, or discussions about it on Instagram. This FOMO led them to redownload Instagram and subsequently lose the positive habits they had developed during their social media break.
What Chrome extensions did the creator mention for managing their YouTube usage?
-The creator mentioned using two Chrome extensions: 'Goodbye Metrics' to hide view counts and subscriber counts, and 'Unhook' to limit the YouTube front-end by blocking elements like YouTube Shorts, the homepage, and suggested videos.
What alternative did the creator suggest for staying up-to-date with favorite authors, speakers, or influencers?
-The creator suggested signing up for valuable newsletters as an alternative to relying on social media, as it allows curating a personalized media feed without ads or recommended content that can waste time.
Why did the creator mention filming the video in a sloppy manner?
-The creator mentioned filming the video in a sloppy manner on their phone intentionally, to make the process as easy as possible for themselves, as they were exhausted from editing the video until 5:30 AM.
What did the creator aim to create with the 'No Scroll Club' challenge?
-The creator aimed to create a reverse FOMO (fear of missing out) with the 'No Scroll Club' challenge, where people would feel FOMO for not being part of the challenge and leaving social media.
Outlines
👋 Introduction to the No Scroll Challenge
The speaker introduces the No Scroll Challenge, where they aim to stay off social media for the entire year of 2024. They explain the reasons behind this challenge, including negative effects of social media on productivity, well-being, attention span, and comparison with others. The speaker also shares their own experience of being more productive and happier during a previous 2-month break from social media. The No Scroll Club is an email community committed to breaking the cycle of endless scrolling.
🚀 Steps to Get Started with the No Scroll Challenge
The speaker provides five steps to get started with the No Scroll Challenge: 1) List all social media platforms being used, 2) Identify exceptions for specific purposes (creation, education, work, communication), 3) Message people to stay in touch, 4) Join valuable newsletters as an alternative to social media, 5) Leave social media accounts (except for identified exceptions). The speaker also mentions using Chrome extensions to limit distractions on YouTube while continuing to post content. They encourage viewers to join the challenge and leave social media with them, creating a 'reverse FOMO' effect.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Social Media
💡Digital Minimalism
💡Productivity
💡Well-being
💡FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)
💡No Scroll Club
💡Exceptions
💡Newsletters
💡Attention Span
💡Comparison
Highlights
The speaker is starting a challenge to stay off social media for the entire year of 2024.
The speaker introduces the 'no scroll club', an email community committed to breaking the cycle of social media scrolling, with 37 people initially signing up.
Members of the club share reasons for joining, such as social media affecting productivity, well-being, attention span, and creative thinking.
The speaker shares their personal experience of leaving Instagram for 2 months, leading to increased reading, physical activity, productivity, and overall happiness.
However, the speaker eventually returned to Instagram due to the fear of missing out (FOMO) on book-related content and promotion.
The speaker outlines five steps to get started on the 'no scroll' journey, including listing social media platforms, identifying exceptions, messaging contacts, joining valuable newsletters, and leaving accounts (minus exceptions).
Exception A is for creation, allowing the speaker to continue posting content on YouTube with restrictions to prevent scrolling.
Exception B is for education, allowing the use of specific platforms solely for learning purposes.
Exception C is for work, permitting the use of required social media platforms for professional reasons.
Exception D is for communication, allowing the use of chat-based apps like Discord, WhatsApp, and Messenger.
The speaker encourages viewers to join the 'no scroll' challenge and leave social media, aiming to create a 'reverse FOMO' effect.
The speaker plans to create more videos on the topic of social media and invites viewers to share questions or thoughts in the comments.
The speaker mentions reading 'Digital Minimalism' and 'Deep Work' by Cal Newport, which inspired their journey away from social media.
The speaker highlights the benefits of being off social media, such as increased reading, physical activity, productivity, social life, and overall happiness.
The speaker acknowledges the potential challenges of staying off social media, such as FOMO and the need for promotion, which led them back to using Instagram.
Transcripts
hello happy New Year it's been a while I
am currently in the United States
visiting family I'm about to meet up
with my friend Angie and we're going to
head to the beach but the the main
reason I'm filming this video is because
today is the first day of my challenged
to stay off social media for the entire
year of 2024 I'm going to talk a little
bit more about the reason why I've
decided to leave social media this year
later on in this video but for now I
want to tell you a little bit more about
the no scroll club and how it works so
that you can decide if you want to join
this club and also give up social media
in 2024 the no scroll Club is an email
Community committed to Breaking the
endless cycle of social media scrolling
on New Year's Eve 37 people signed up to
join me in spending the full year of
2024 off social media here's what they
have to say spending too much time on
social media is affecting my
productivity and well-being I spend
literally hours scrolling it's like a
reflex and I want to get rid of it my
attention span is depleting and I'm
constantly feeling for a ping in my
pocket I felt during this year that when
I woke up the first thing I would do is
get on my phone I want to be more
productive spend more time in nature to
be honest I am exposed to Too Much fast
absorbed input and as I am working on a
novel and other poetry collections it's
necessary to isolate myself I'm mentally
numb now none of my own ideas look
Innovative or creative to my eye anymore
I neglecting what really matters in life
I'm comparing myself to others on social
media to the point where I am always
feeling hollowed out social media makes
me feel diminished about my life I'll
lie on my bed and spend hours scrolling
this last year was a nightmare because I
procrastinate all day long I've even
neglected my studies and hobbies I've
really Associated social media with
relaxation and everything else seems
exhausting in comparison which honestly
can't be right I feel like I haven't
truly lived in a long time even when I'm
out and around people I'm constantly
checking my my phone not really
connecting I can't believe how many
people have admitted to social media
being a negative thing in their lives I
thought maybe it was just me and a few
others who are kind of uh overly
attached it really confirmed to me that
this is a real problem for probably
almost everyone especially in my
generation gen Z where we have grown up
with access to social media from a very
young age um unless you had really
strict parents or something
but yeah I've been on Instagram since I
was 13 years old for like as long as I
could be on Instagram it has been 8
years now and I feel like that is more
than enough Instagram usage for a
lifetime right that's a long time to be
on Instagram and it's not like for those
eight years I was using it here and
there I was very active on the platform
for eight full years and I think it's
time to say
goodbye
[Music]
I am now at the beach with my friend
Angie say hi maybe you remember her from
some of my older videos I've set you
down in a little uh succulent here uh
this journey first began when I read
digital minimalism and deep work by Cal
Newport it opened my eyes to how
unimportant social media might actually
be ultimately I ended up leaving
Instagram completely completely forever
yeah that didn't really work out but I
decided to leave Instagram I made a post
about how this would be my last post and
this whole thing and I left Instagram
for 2 months and let me tell you it was
the best 2 months of my life I was
reading so much the first thing I did
when I woke up in the morning was reach
for a book and read a chapter I was
swimming and stretching every night and
I was working much less but
accomplishing so much more my social
life was much more active I was actually
hanging out with people more and overall
I just felt so much happier and I felt
like I had so much free time when I
lived most of my life just feeling like
I'm constantly in a battle for time that
was a really amazing 2 months but
then there was a bit of an issue my new
book Night shet Academy was coming up
and I suddenly had this intense hit of
fomo what if people leave reviews on my
book on Instagram and I don't see them
what if they take pictures of my book
and I don't see them I really wanted to
like be there to witness stuff related
to night Treat Academy and because of
that I ended up redownloading the app
and using it for promotional purposes
AKA scrolling through Instagram reels
for hours and all of my good habits kind
of just vanished and yes that's probably
some of my own fault as well but I
really do kind of blame social media uh
just because those things happened at
the same time and I think it's so much
easier to be productive when you don't
have you know something to scroll
through that can just kill hours at a
time
oh uhoh thank you long story
short I
want what I had during those 2 months
back and that's why I decided to put
together something called the no scroll
club and we are going to be spending the
entire year of 2024 off social media I
really encourage you to consider joining
me on this challenge I'm going to have a
link in the description below so you can
sign up let's get our free time back if
you're ready to dive right into the
challenge here are five steps to get
started on your no scroll
Journey step one list every social media
platform you're active on step two if
needed identify exceptions to leaving
completely you can stay on specific
platforms given you have a clear purpose
for it and set limits to prevent
scrolling exception A is for creation
maybe you want to continue posting
content but you'll no longer scroll and
engage with the platform I'm actually
using this exception myself for YouTube
while I'll be leaving Instagram
completely I want to continue posting
videos however I don't want to get
distracted by watching random cont
content on the platform so I'm going to
set restrictions in place by using two
Chrome extensions one of them is called
goodby metrics which I've already been
using for several months now it allows
me to hide things like view count and
subscriber count which often become very
distracting for me the second extension
is called unhook which limits the
YouTube front end you can customize it
to block elements like YouTube shorts
the homepage and suggested videos in the
sidebar exception B is for Education
there's no denying that you can can
learn a lot through social media so
maybe you want to continue using a
specific platform solely for educational
purposes exception C is for work maybe
your job requires you to use a specific
social media platform so as a compromise
you simply stop using your personal
account exception D is for communication
this means using chat-based apps like
Discord WhatsApp line and Facebook
Messenger to communicate with friends
and family assuming that text messaging
isn't an option for you step three
message people who you want to keep in
touch with step four join valuable
newsletters one common reason for using
social media is to stay up to date with
favorite authors speakers influencers
Etc but there's a good chance that they
have a newsletter and they'd much prefer
you stay up to date there by signing up
to receive emails you can curate your
own personalized media feed that isn't
riddled with ads and recommended content
that's just going to waste your time
step five leave your social media
accounts minus exceptions log out on
your computer and delete the apps from
your phone write down your rules for
exceptions if any this was supposed to
be a very sloppy video I filmed it all
on my phone on purpose just to make it
as easy as possible for me but it is
currently 5:30 a.m. and I am not done
editing the video and I am exhausted so
please please please please please join
my no scroll challenge leave social
media with me I think it'll be fun I'm
trying to create the reverse fomo like
normally when you leave social media you
feel fomo you guys should be feeling
fomo for not being part of my club okay
so um yeah link below I actually plan to
make more videos on the topic of social
media so if you have any questions or
just random thoughts you'd like to share
feel free to leave them in the comment
section
below
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