G'day and welcome to Pines with Aquinas.

My name is Matt Fred and it has been three months since I got rid of my smartphone and

I'm here today to tell you about what that's like and honestly to encourage you to do exactly

what I have done.

All of this started about three years ago.

I was feeling very overwhelmed by technology.

On Friday nights I would drive my backpack to a friend's house and in that backpack was

my laptop and my smartphone.

And those were the only two ways I could access the internet at the time.

I didn't have a desktop or anything at home.

And I'd go home for that weekend and just remember feeling how slow the days would go

and how I wish life was like this all the time.

After that I heard a podcast by Matt Walsh.

This is about several months later about social media and what it's doing to us.

And I decided to get off social media.

I haven't been on Instagram Twitter, Facebook for about four, I guess three years now.

The else runs it, I don't access it ever, never go on.

If it looks like I'm interacting, it's just one of the people that I pay to make it seem

that way.

And I remember thinking gosh, my life is so much better because of that.

Shortly after that I started taking August off of the internet.

This is the third year in a row now I've done that.

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