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Can You Take a Vacation From Social Media?

Went Hot: March 25, 2008 - 12:02 pm
Posted By: nowsourcing 468 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: Other Social Media

Do you think it is possible to take a vacation from social media? All those sites and feeds? Not likely, once it is in your bloodstream.

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from MikeDammann 467 days ago #

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Only if you have a designated email account just for your social media accounts and force yourself not to log in there for a while.

from eKstreme 467 days ago #

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I've been thinking about this too! I find that being offline even for just one day is bad enough in terms of catching up with the online world.

One experiment I'm trying is to re-rank the feeds I read (over 150 of them!) based on priority. This way if I have to catch up with little time, I start at the top and read down. Never should I have an unread feed if I'm reading a lower-priority feed. This has been going on for a week or so and it's doing great. My stress levels after being offline are lower than they've ever been

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from nowsourcing 467 days ago #

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@MikeDammann
yes, that certainly can help with your email nerves.

@eKstreme
Reranking 150 feeds sounds like fun, but I'm sure it is well worth it once you have it running.

from eKstreme 467 days ago #

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I did spend about an hour on it. What made if easier was that if there were unread posts in the feed, it meant that I didn't care that much about the feed.