What is The Social Media Detox?The Guidebook for your Digital Life. A Deep Dive, into the Way Out.Strategies to help
Minimize their social media usage
Understand, control, or delete their digital data footprints
Let go of unnecessary services and platforms
Develop a healthier relationship between their online and real-world life
Pulled from over ten years of experience on the healthy outside of the social media phenomenon, half a decade working at two of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech giants, training hundreds of clients in their wellness goals, and a Buddhist upbringing focused on meditation and mindfulness. I bring observations on a world lost to faceless suggestion software and unaccountable corporate giants.Readers will
The societal, political, and psychological implications of a world always connected, yet never truly in touch with anything or anyoneBite-size, actionable steps that will lead to better use, or discontinued use, of services and platforms that are increasingly gathering your personal information without limitAimed at helping users, especially Gen Z, reconnect with the habits and self-ownership that will enable them to achieve Happy & Healthy in the Here & Now.Imagine a proven, incremental blueprint that empowers everyone to log off and reconnect.Let's Dive in to the Disconnect together!ABOUT THE AUTHORRichard Anthony Garzarelli is an adventurer and writer with over a decade of professional experience across technology, wellness, and business management fields. His travels to Japan throughout his youth, as well as experiences living across many parts of the U.S. and abroad, strongly inform his work.
A good argument, and I wanted to like this book more than I actually did. The last chapters go so interesting, my one complaint is it took too long to get there. However, the more “boring” earlier chapters were eye opening on decreasing the digital data companies have on you.