Digital Wellness Day is when we actually lean into our digital communities and we talk to each other about how we can reclaim our time and not doom scroll for ever and ever and how when we do choose to go online, we're doing it for a healthy reason. I wanted to ask everybody on Swell, what is your digital wellness protocol? Do you have one? Do you think about timing yourself? Do you think about when to stand up and to breathe?
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:15
Two quick things. First of all, I said Chloe. And I meant Clo. Welcome, Clo. And secondly, I'm giving you the link to the original swell that I posted about the May 5 Digital Wellness Day so you can take a look at that
Okay, here's a couple of tips for managing your digital wellness. When you start to see a lot of crap on your timeline, start unfriending people. This is like a little quick tip. TikTok used to promote videos to you. That the people that you followed, like, people who are your friends, like. And when I kept seeing a lot of poisonous stuff, I realized by looking through the comments on TikTok that those people that I was getting, it because of the same person
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 1:40
And so I've done a lot of unfollowing and things like that. Facebook asks now, would you like to see more or less of this in your feed? I love it because then I don't have to unfriend you and unblock you necessarily, but I could just see less of your post. And so I've got some people that are really funny, but they also post things that are not so funny and that is helpful to see less of them
I love this. And the easiest thing I've done so far, very recently, actually, for my digital wellness, is turn off the notifications. I didn't necessarily remove social media apps from my phone. I'm thinking of possibly doing this to my email as well, because the email completely overwhelms me sometimes and anxiety shoots through the roof
Nidhin George 🔷
@geo_rhymes · 0:49
Hey, Deborah. Great topic and one that I've contemplated on many times, and I have just one point to share here, and that's this. A lot of the times, a lot of the digital activities or tasks that we think are important are actually not important. And a lot of the times, some of the digital engagements that we do, it can be people or platforms that we engage in are not really that important
Hello. Hi, Deborah. Chloe here. Thank you so much for this intro. I cannot wait to listen to what everyone has replied already. I see that there are already replies below your introduction. Thank you so much for having me here. I'm so happy to be here and talk about digital wellbeing and the science behind it and how to create healthy digital habits. So let's get into it
Augustine Hicks
@GODISTHRIFTY · 4:48
I'm not going to say, like, it's private, but it gives so much when you can have someone hear you and respond based on what they heard and not what they assumed. Can I say that? Okay. Hopefully you understand, and I'm sure you will. You're such a wonderful voice on this platform. So with that being said, social media, let me get to your question. So what are your digital wellness habits. There we have it
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:59
It's so great to hear everybody respond to this in such personal ways. And Chloe, thank you for being here and really looking at the science behind this. You mentioned this idea of the phone anywhere in your site still creates that umbilical cord connection, which is so intense. I wanted to talk with you a little bit about something I'm concerned about, which is that use my phone between nine to 12 hours a day. And it's something that I enjoy
Cristi Adams
@Cris13 · 2:12
So I love this conversation and I think I spend too much time on Instagram. So I try to check myself and not really sure. I'm not that regimented. About time frame. That is actually a great suggestion. How many hours I'm spending on my phone, how many hours I'm spending away from my phone
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:05
Hey, Christy, what a great suggestion to really drop into the protocol that we can use physically all the time. I'm going to go over to your swell cast now and hear what you have to say. I think this conversation has to happen constantly, and I know Clos is so committed to this at a global perspective, too
Hey, Deborah. Hi. That is such a good question. What happens to our eyes when we look at screens for hours? And what happens with this radiation? So first I'm going to start with the eyes. You're absolutely correct. It's not good to look up clos for extended periods of time that could be our phone or a laptop, but even just a book for 6 hours or 8 hours a day. It's also not good for our eyes, right?
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:00
We'd be working on the crossroad puzzle, we'd be chatting. And now it's silent and people are in their worlds, and it's just demoralizing to me. Even standing online waiting for coffee, you can't chat up somebody because they look so important on their phone. The other day, I was watching a woman on her phone while her three year old was in front of her, just having a great little time, talking to her mother, asking her mother to watch her
So those in between moments are really important to not be too active, to just look around, relax, sit, have a break, in a way. And when instead we use them to stay mentally active and to be on our phone or to be hyper focused on a podcast, for instance, it doesn't give us that opportunity. So instead of taking that time to recharge, we're even more drained at the end of our work day and we get home, we're exhausted
And interestingly, I think before we start using tools like Unplug or any other, the awareness already needs to be there. So that's why I'm always also trying to join in on conversations, find other people like Chloe and you that are working on sharing the message of helping people to become more aware of how they spent their time in the digital world