Been mostly keeping to a "social media (and especially social media posting) only on weekends" rule and man when I come back and post something, the difference really hits. Suddenly I notice that a part of my mind starts going "oh I wonder how many reacts that has gotten? let me go check!" in a clicky-clicky loop and that kinda becomes my mind's Default Action and it just feels bad.

Like taking enforced breaks makes it obvious how much worse and how quickly I'll suddenly start feeling bad if I let myself post (or even do unrestricted browsing) again, feels like there's a pretty distinct shift.

Now making an explicit decision not to look at the reactions to this post until sometime in the evening