Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans.

This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk to all things planning

and planning adjacent.

Today is definitely one of those planning adjacent episodes.

And I have covered this topic to some extent before, but it's very important to me.

And every few months, it just bubbles up.

And so this is going to be an episode discussing 10 reasons to consider a trial off of social media.

The reasons for this episode are possibly

somewhat obvious, but I think that I've heard more people talking about getting off of

social media or curating the content we consume in an intentional way recently than I've

heard in quite a while. And that is heartening to me because this is

something I've been very passionate about for a long time after seeing how using social media has

affected me, seeing how screen time impacts my kids, reading about just how things have changed so quickly in the past decade or so.

And I have talked about this on the show before, but I'm just excited that I feel like this

issue is just bubbling up again and starting to seem more normal, less of an outlier thing to really question the role of these

sources of content coming at us throughout the day in our lives. So here we go. I'm going to

give you 10 reasons to consider a trial off of social media. First of all, I will mention my own social media journey, which I did go

into in an episode that I think I called, like the social media rant or something like that.

But I did quit Facebook in 2016 during a lot of election stuff. It seemed like it was becoming a very angry space, but also I do find

myself very easily addicted to the various features of social media. I can't say why I find

these platforms addicting in a way I don't have issues with other things.

Like, I don't have issues being addicted to substances or types of food, for example.

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