The internet is filled with algorithms to suggest you content. And there are too many good recommendations to actually parse the list of "saved for later". I want to narrow things down and to feel again how it was in the childhood, before the internet. When you heard about movies/books/shows/art/activities from friends and family, not from forums and feeds.
For the duration of a week (2sept-8sept) I will try to only watch/read/interact with stuff that I heard from people I know in real life.
I will not specifically ask them for recommendation or reveal my challenge, only naturally occuring mentions count.
This is a personal market, and the resolution will not be verifiable.
I allow myself to use this page to reflect on how i feel from this "detox".
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Changed my mind. I do not want to spend sleeplessness (happens sometimes to me) in silence, without even a book.
I have already tried 1 full month of no social media before and completed the challenge, but it did not stick. And this challenge feels even more limiting. Recollecting what recommendations i have recieved recently... the last time was more than a month ago. As i said, my friends talk more about practical life, than about entertainments.
Instead of watching yt in my free time i made a video. This day already feels a bit better consumption-wise.
I remember how fun it was to learn about electroswing from my friend in childhood. We then regularly listened to it during walks. But nowadays people around me seem to only talk about tasks and obligations, sometimes about news. They do not share their passions and interests, because they could always find interested people online.
@Henry38hw i have couple books saved on my phone, but cannot read them. They all were somehow promoted by internet. Even when i used project gutenberg the ordering of the books is not formed by recommendations of a close person.