Nuclear Option Screen Free Year for 2025

[u/OffTheGrid2025]

I am done with this addiction once and for all. I have struggled with social media, YouTube, binge watching streaming, gaming, scrolling, etc. in some form or another off and on ever since we got the Internet in our home in 1995. I could write an entire book and how so much of my life has been shaped by my relationship with technology and the inner complexities of grappling with it.

I've gone off and on with a dumb phone vs. smart phone...even spent a lot of time in ITAA and quit all of my worst behaviors but never really got underneath the addiction

I have deleted and re-started social media accounts...I have done detoxes that lasted a month at a time. I have done every type of therapy imaginable. (CBT, DBT, EMDR....lots of acronyms)

I work part-time at a school and need very little technology for work. My husband works from home and can take care of a lot of our family's digital "errands" if you will. My child has also showed signs of extreme dysregulation with screen time which is a whole different story.

For 2025 this is how I will use technology:

*Light phone as my primary phone

*E-mail for work

*Texting

*GPS

*A few movies with the family (very rarely like watching Prisoner of Azkaban with my family when my child finishes the book)

*Sit down once a week with the husband on the computer to go over budgeting, personal e-mail, registering for community events, etc.

*Only use smart phone for payment app and booking exercise classes

Here is what I will not do:

*Social media (Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, TikTok, etc.)

*Television

*Digital music

*Going online without a clear purpose

*YouTube

*Mindless scrolling through articles and news

Here is what I WILL do instead:

*Cook, exercise, board games, jigsaw puzzles, drink water, hang out with my family, work, clean, dance to music on CD's or our Alexa Echo dot, yoga classes, play the piano, go on walks outside, READ PAPER BOOKS, paint, organize my home, puzzle books, nap, take pictures with a real camera, draw, stare at the wall and do nothing, tarot & oracle card readings, feel my feelings, meditation, journaling, prayer, community events, comedy at a local open mic, and a billion other options

I am spending the next few days writing down the books I want to read, cleaning up my e-mail, making sure I can access voice mail on my Light Phone, etc. and then the nuclear option will be activated.

[u/Comprehensive_Yak442]

I love this post!

Here is a person who has very specific ideas for what she is going to replace screen time with. I predict success.

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[u/Fair_Pause_6588]

I'm done with this too. Since October 21 I stopped working because an accident and, know what? My online habits went to hell (once again into porn). I know I'm going to regret not taking advantage of the time off. I was learning to program in fact, but at the first difficulty or struggle I sent everything to hell.

Gonna take a time off to plan a use guide by and for myself, something like free of internet time to think about and plan the use of the internet itself.

Good luck for you.

[u/[deleted]]

I am limiting my screen time as well. THe minimalist launcher app is my attempt to keep a simi smart phone but block everything else. I also have it as monochrome.

[u/IntelligentWish4915]

if tech is not so necessary for you, use a landline only & public computers in internet cafe, library

[u/CreativeWriter1983]

I grew up in a wealthy area near Washington. I have had internet for many years. However, because I am cynical about people, its a great place for me. I try to create online rather than consume. I get it that some just want to turn it off. Makes sense to me.

[u/minimalistparent]

I just downloaded an app blocker for Android. Even if you delete the app, it won't delete the functions it had, until the suggested timer is over. It's set so far for 9pm to 8am. So I sleep well and hopefully do me and my toddlers breakfast without any interruption.

I blocked video editing, google, (reddit), and YT. As that was all I had on my phone. I don't have a computer. And only a DVD player for toddlers DVDs.