Today I'm going to talk about why I quit social media, but before I do that, please hit the, please hit the, you know what, maybe you should not hit the subscribe button.

Maybe you should just go outside. Maybe you should just get offline. Maybe you and I should take a hard look at what the internet and social media have been doing to us for almost 20 years.

And maybe we should reconsider how we spend the 1,440 minutes that God gives us every day.

I say this because in the past few months, I've taken a hard look at my social media use.

And I've tried to change it to better glorify God and live out my primary vocation as a husband and father. Here's

what happened. A few years ago, I had multiple social media platforms, including a public

Facebook page, a private Facebook page, private Instagram, and I was posting on X regularly. Back then it was

Twitter. But then I noticed two things about social media that made me realize I was addicted to a

drug, and it was time to go cold turkey. Number one, it's a gigantic time suck. As I said before,

God gives us 1,440 minutes a day. A third of that should go to sleep,

a third should go to work when it's during the work week, and the remaining third should be

restful, and for a married guy like me, it should be in service to my family. But social media

crept into all three of those areas. It stole from sleep, it stole from work,

and worst of all, it stole from family. And I was just sick of that happening. According to most

research, the average social media user belongs to six different networks and spends two to three

hours a day on social media. For teens, it's almost five hours a day. And the average user checks his

mobile device once every six minutes during the waking part of the day. In order for the Council

of Trent to be successful, I have to be on platforms like Instagram and TikTok, but I don't

personally manage those accounts. Honestly, the biggest time suck of all of these platforms is

YouTube. Or, as Michael Scott put it, when I discovered YouTube, I didn't work for five days. I did

nothing. I am torn about what social media does to people, and so I feel like a hypocrite if I

create content on YouTube that contributes to this problem.

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