Some truths about social media addiction:

I'm going through the experience, so this is almost an account:

1- It's very difficult to get rid of the social media habit. The effort required is huge because you're fighting automated behaviors that, before you know it, you've already done. Everything is made easy for you to be there.

2- When you replace this habit, your life becomes simpler and more meaningful, and you don't want to go back. Replace it, because you can't eliminate a habit without putting something in its place. Our brain doesn't like gaps and will try to fill them with something, and the easiest thing is to revert to the old behavior. We cannot allow that loophole.

3- If you use social media for work, your vigilance must be much greater. With your phone in hand, you go in to do something that takes 5 minutes, and before you know it, half an hour has passed. Vigilance must be constant.

4- If you use social media for work and want to change that, replacing short-form content creation with long-form content like here on Substack and YouTube can be a good alternative to avoid falling into the black hole of a feed and never leaving.

An incentive: being analog will greatly increase your creativity and originality. Thus, even to produce for social media, you will do better by staying away from it. Then you only go online to share something truly significant.