This is Stevea Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Social media. I just love social media. No, no I don't. I hate social media. It's manipulative, but it doesn't feel that way.

It feels warm and fuzzy, like lying in your schmoopee's arms being showered with warm,

golden light. You wonder how you survived before glorious social media entered your life,

and the answer is better, much better. Social media feels great. It sucks up time that you used

to waste learning a new skill or reading a book to learn more about

a topic or finishing an important project, but social media feels great. It displaces reflection,

contemplation, and learning so that your ideas, when you even bother to have them, are lower

quality and shallow. But social media feels great. It replaces your genuine connections with

momentary exchanges with people who are no

longer part of your life because they weren't actually that important to you, but social media

feels great. If you've been following the news, you also know that social media has manipulated

us in unprecedented numbers to feel and think and behave in ways that we believe are our own,

but are actually dictated by the forces of evil,

or at least by forces that really don't care about you and me at all.

It's time to disconnect, and today we'll learn how to disconnect from social media,

reclaim our time, reclaim our relationships, and reclaim our own decisions.

Step one, acknowledge the problem.

Do you get a secret little thrill when you see lots of likes on a post that you posted,

and little smiley faces and stuff?

Oh, me too.

They don't mean anything.

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