Ryan Leak

Yeah, what if the goal is to say, man, I want to have a healthy relationship with this tool that I believe really can add value to your life?

And for me, it's certainly been a journey.

I don't know if you know this, but recently my company actually started a social media arm of our business.

And we actually now help influencers and leaders grow their platforms as my accounts have steadily grown over the past couple of years.

And so my relationship with social media...

has looked different in different seasons.

There was a season where I actually would actually be on social media only on Sundays.

I know it sounds so weird, right?

But yes, I would only be on social media on Sundays.

I would schedule all my posts on Sunday afternoons and I called it posting and ghosting, right?

So I would download the apps Sunday morning, get all my content ready, schedule everything, and then I would delete it all off my phone.

And then throughout the week, if I wanted to leave comments or check messages, I would then just use Safari to do that.

And I can just tell you this.

Social media platforms are not nearly as addictive or even user-friendly in a web browser as they are in an app.

And so that small layer of friction made a huge difference for me.

It allowed me to still be connected to people that are following me and staying connected to my content, but it didn't consume my time.

And understand this, these platforms, I don't think they're evil.

Some people might think that's true, but I don't.

These platforms are designed to keep you there.

They are designed to have you scroll for infinity and beyond.