{"id":1674,"date":"2016-05-26T20:15:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T00:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewpallant.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2020-01-10T11:23:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T16:23:33","slug":"why-i-removed-social-media-from-my-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andrewpallant.ca\/wordpress\/why-i-removed-social-media-from-my-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Removed Social Media From My Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good-bye Twitter<br \/>\nGood-bye Facebook<br \/>\nGood-bye Skype<br \/>\nGood-by Snapchat<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Why I Removed Social Media From My Phone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I recently removed social media from my phone.  I did it so I can focus on what is most important.  24 hours a day my phone buzzes with notifications.  I played with the Do Not Disturb feature and I tinkered with turning off notifications only to find myself randomly checking status.  Most times, the status and news feeds that I am looking out has nothing to do with me.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am focusing on my family when I am out with them.  I am no longer checking Twitter and Facebook when I am shooting pool.  No more social networks at all on my phone.  No more pocket notification interruptions. <\/p>\n<p>I am still keeping my social media accounts. I will check them if I am watching TV, when I am by myself and when I am totally bored.  I am just keeping you at arms reach on my tablet and PC browser.<\/p>\n<p>I am not gone, I am just no longer available 24\/7.  I am not famous and therefore you do not need me right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good-bye Twitter Good-bye Facebook Good-bye Skype Good-by Snapchat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,145,61,62,143,76,144],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Why I Removed Social Media From My Phone - LDNDeveloper<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewpallant.ca\/wordpress\/why-i-removed-social-media-from-my-phone\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why I Removed Social Media From My Phone - 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