Deleted my social apps for 30 days, kept only the browser version

Last month I gave myself a choice: keep the Instagram and Facebook apps on my phone like normal, or delete them and only use the mobile browser when I really needed to check something. I picked the browser route because I figured the extra friction would slow me down. It worked better than I expected, I went from checking my phone every 15 minutes to maybe twice a day. The browser versions are slower and clunkier, but that's exactly why I stopped scrolling mindlessly. I did miss the notifications for about a week, then I just forgot they existed. Now I'm wondering if anyone else has tried this split approach, and did you ever go back to the apps or stick with the browser long term?

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emery87911d ago

So basically you paid your phone bill just to use the slow version of everything, huh?