Do you roll your eyes and groan more than you laugh and smile when going through your various social media feeds? Then perhaps it’s time to clear out the social media clutter, Marie Kondo style.
Social Media Should Bring You Joy
Social media is often stressful. Following a lot of people is time-consuming, and it distracts you from the people and things that are truly important in your life. Your social media should bring you joy, whether it’s staying in touch with friends and family, learning new things you’re interested in, or just keeping up with your favorite celebrities or athletes. It shouldn’t be an endless feed of negative people, arguments, and things you don’t care about.
After all, if using social media doesn’t make you happy, then what’s the point of using it in the first place? Luckily, if you want to make a change, it’s possible, and Marie Kondo’s method for tidying up can help with that.
Who Is Marie Kondo?
If you haven’t noticed, decluttering has become a huge craze lately thanks to a new Netflix series called “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.” It features a new family every episode and documents their journeys of decluttering their homes to live happier lives.
Marie Kondo is a decluttering expert who has written several books on the art of organization and getting rid of stuff you don’t need. Using the KonMari method (created by Kondo herself), viewers and readers are told to go through each of their items one-by-one and only keep things that “spark joy.” Everything else is tossed out (after thanking it, of course).
It’s not just about freeing up physical space in your home. You dispose of objects that don’t bring you joy to focus on objects that do. Likewise, tidying up your social media will let you focus on the people you care about—the ones that bring you joy.
The KonMari method includes five categories: Books, papers, komono (miscellaneous items), and sentimental items. Declutterers go through each category in their home one-by-one to make it easier to chip away at all the clutter.
All of this is really aimed at physical items in your home taking up space, but you can easily apply the KonMari method to social media. It’s easy to think that digital clutter isn’t a problem because we can just follow a bunch of people without it taking up any physical space, but it does take up space on our screens and in our minds. Following a lot of people on social media can be distracting, stressful, and time-consuming—just like dealing with clutter in your home.
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Source : Do the People You Follow on Social Media Spark Joy?
