Amy & Aron's

The festive season is all about spending time with your loved ones, but nowadays, it can be easy to hop onto your phone or laptop, to have more digital time. You do have to be comfortable when you are posting online but there is so much to think about. Who are you posting to? Is it worth it when it's the holiday season? What to do if you've used copyrighted music by mistake? See, lots of questions to answer!Here are ways to help monitor your digital time and to reduce it over the festive season.


Keep Your Phone In Another Room

When it comes to our phones, there’s always a temptation to quickly check on our social media or to look at our emails. It’s so quick to do when it’s all available and ready on your phone. So to help with that temptation, think about keeping your phone in another room, rather than on your person. That way, you won’t get tempted to have a quick go on moto x3m or to start endlessly scrolling through your Twitter or Facebook feeds. Leave it in another room and stay out of that room until you need to go back there later.



Temporarily Block Social Media

Social media is likely to be one of the biggest factors of using our phones and electronic devices. We can often get sucked into the world of the online platforms and not to mention, other people’s lives. As interesting as it sometimes maybe, it’s also a very toxic place and one that can be unhealthy, particularly over Christmas. Helping yourself to spend time away from social media is important and can be done so through the help of apps. There are plenty out there that will limit the time you spend on there and can block you from using it for a certain number of hours. This can come in handy when you’re trying to give yourself a break or to reduce temptation. You could go to the extreme and remove the social apps from your phone or electronic device over the Christmas period. It might prove quite challenging to do, but it might be the digital detox you need when it comes to social media itself. As much as it can be useful to us, it can always be very toxic and can affect our mental health and wellbeing in general. It can be easy to compare our lives to others that seem perfect but actually aren’t always what they seem.


Limit The Time

Spending some time in the digital world is allowed of course, but to help with keeping control, it’s worth limiting the amount you do. Try to give yourself certain times where you’re allowed to use it and then have those times where you completely switch off from screen time. Make this a time to spend time with your family and to engage in family time, rather than making it about the digital world. Set these limits, and you’ll hopefully stick to them over the course of the festive time.

Monitoring your time online is important in general, but even more so over Christmas. Try to make it more about spending time with others, rather than living out your reality online. It’s never healthy, and real-life is more important.