A short YouTube monologue (tip) by Peter Vander Wall encouraging intentional social media consumption. The speaker describes doomscrolling as a symptom of a lack of intentionality and recommends regularly auditing and unfollowing Instagram accounts that don’t add value—keeping only accounts that teach, maintain meaningful connections, or genuinely entertain (e.g., meme pages).
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This is a tip that's going to make your experience on social media just so much better. Now, I think we all know that feeling of just doom scrolling for like 45 minutes and just feeling gross afterwards, right? And I think this comes from a generalized lack of intentionality on social media. I always talk about how brands need to be more intentional with their content, but we as consumers also need to be more intentional with the way that we consume content. You're just following these accounts on Instagram because you saw one funny video on your Reels feed, or, you know, you sat next to her in 10th grade biology. But does following this account really bring value to your life? Every few weeks I go through the accounts I follow on Instagram and I just unfollow a bunch of them. Ones that don't really add value to my life. I don't want to follow accounts just because I want to follow accounts that actually make my life better or more enjoyable. Whether I learn something from them, they're someone I genuinely want to keep in touch with or I'll be fully transparent. I follow a few meme pages. I need to get something out of following this account because otherwise, what's the point? I.
