This blog was inspired from a tweet from @etnoamalia related to one @mashable's article about social media "addiction".
http://t.co/E7DXRmymaO
Im on fasting, not just about refrain from eating and drinking as moslem used to practice, but im on social media fasting.
The purpose of this socmed fasting is just having another experiment on myself and to reduce the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) from friends update.
In this case, i have different purpose on different socmed account which I've made it intended. I use facebook as tool to connect with most friend, while instagram and twitter i used as tool to follow some friends (that used their account recently/frequently), follow stranger that I doesn't know and other public figure that is important enough to follow (they share information, knowledge, "beef", not just crap).
So far i can manage ONLY one day without looking on my facebook, instagram, and twitter account.
I only manage for one day (first trial) while I must check my campus fanpage wall post for important information regarding my study.
Second trial runs seems good, while I've managed the FOMO feeling. Nevertheless, as my task as social media manager in two account makes me think on how can I maintain the Klout score without jeopardise my fasting, and take a peek on others update as content source. 😰😓
The result from this fasting (for personal purpose) is that some of facebook update is not as important as twitters or instagrams, while there is not so much beef, just another crap that I wont be missed for weeks. 😜😝
While in twitter and instagram, I think that twitter is more important than instagram, while there I can get the beef the most compared to instagram.
Another challenge is to have fasting on instant messaging account, this is different from social media fasting, while I must refrain to chat, consider the importance/urgency of chatting through Whatsapp and LINE, and the joy using those cute stickers. 😁😋
It may worth it to discuss in different blog post.
