What I’ve Get from Social Media Shaum(Fasting)
Let me get you to the point of this stories as the title that already stated above. And for all grammar-nazi, sorry if you find a grammar-error in my writing, let me now through DM(@pambudixix), right.
I’ve limited my social media access since about several days ago and have planned to do this many time since about several years ago. Many approaching I’ve done, like uninstall the apps, limit the screen time, put the phone on Not Disturb mode, but nothing last forever, till I really fucked by the social media.
I’m an introvert person, as long as you know me, I never put my face on the social media, except for precious moment. If you see out there, many people like do a tiktok, put their face close-up while do boomerang, etc that I don’t know what are their motivation behind it. That’s not my business tho but for me, social media is a platform for me to show to the world bout my works, sharing bout something that good for me(and I think would be good to the folks) and little about my precious moment on my life. I think it pretty healthy social media activities but it’s not the shits that makes me think to do a social media shaum(red:fasting)
So when the time I feel that I got fucked by social media? While I’m scrolling the timeline like forever while I know I could use that time to do an activity that more productive, so I could step up myself to the next level, rather than seeing others people post. Actually, I think my timeline is contain a lot of pretty productive post like other people work, motivation words, my hobbies(like sneakers) and some sports news. All the good stuff and post that I love is right there but again, scrolling that in a lot of time is make me feel fucked.
That’s the main reason, but there are many reason that I would mention it below through what I feel and the positive things after do a social media shaum
Raising-up the nostalgic value
I’m a curious-guy. When I open Instagram, I always open my friends stories, what they do right now. But, the problem is when we finally meet, have a lil reunion at café or angkringan. My curiosity bout my fellas life is gone because I already now them through their snapgram/stories and vice versa to me, I’ve share my moment sometimes and feel like “what do you want to know from me if you already know my moment through my stories?”.
So when I stop seeing my friends stories, my curiosity is starve and when we meet, I would asking them to tell all their life stories while we apart off to feed my curiosity. Sometimes, not everything should be put in social media to keep that nostalgic feeling more valuable when we meet with the fellas
More productive
Yes, because I’m not put the social media as an option activity while I gabut(Bahasa term about doing nothing), so I need to force my mind to find another activity. Several activities that I do while in my gabut time are reading the kindle/medium article, listening to the podcast, watch tutorial on youtube, and scrolling at behance/pinterest to gaining design ideas and reference. I subscribed to medium member to force myself to read it because already spend a dollar on it lol, but I love it, seriously. Many good articles are unlocked plus you get an access to audio articles, pretty helps me to sharp up my English, especially in listening and speaking skills.
Stop from over-branding myself
Yeah, that shit is real man, to be honest. Over-branding in here means you tell the people a good things bout you but you ain’t really do that, kaburamaktan in Islamic term. As what saykoji said “Pencitraan is ok, as long as your image is not fake”(you could listen to the song source, Kemal Palevi — Sans). When I limit the social media, I could hold and control myself to not over-branding myself.
Stop from post a dumb things
Sometimes, I post a something in social media to “code” others, be someone or group of people and it’s bad. Either it is love or hate, the right way is tell to the related person bout your problem/feelings, not trying to ”code” them through social media. By doing social media shaum, I have a control to myself to stop this shit.
The methods that I use to limit my social media access is turn off the notification and limit the screen time. Yes, the notification is the main temptation, while I turn off that shit, I feel good. No need to being anxious about the notification, so I could focus on the things that matter at the time.
I still access the social media, not really put myself off from it. Like a fasting, you have a break time but only to maybe share a good things or looking for inspiration for my brand and design life, not scrolling forever in timeline or watch people stories.
That’s all folks, hope you could get a positive things from this stories. Sorry for my bad writing, it is the first time I write in English. Have a barakah day y’all.
