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Sorry…
I am sorry I have been so quite on my blog the past few months. I am a teacher and it has been an absolute whirlwind with COVID and the Goverments decisions. Especially when you consider I am actually only an NQT! Anyway…I can honestly say that giving up social media has been so much easier than I had anticipated it to be. I think what has helped the most is the fact that there are other ways to keep in contact with those close to you. I do not need to constantly be bombarded by everybody’s pictures or posts, especially the monotonous ones. It has made me realise who…
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Reactions
Okay, I did not think it was going to be this difficult to be honest with you. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have picked up my phone to scroll through a social media site to pass the time. On the Monday after my first post I decided to go to bed and its normally this time I lie in bed scrolling through Facebook, Instagram or TikTok whilst my husband gets ready for bed. So even after this post and got into bed I went to look for my phone…crazy! I mean what a habit it has become! However, as I unlocked my phone I remembered…
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Farewell social media
It is time for me to say goodbye to social media (not sure for how long) but I do feel it has been impacting my life more negatively than positively. It is important for me to say here that I am an emotional person, the type of person that wears their heart upon their sleeve as people say. Obviously life this year for us all has been turned upside down, and for me I spent 7 months of working. This was an extremely long time….more than HALF the year. It was during this time I turned to social media more for entertainment and social interaction, even downloading TikTok (this was…