[jillianschuller]

It's good to see more write-ups like this. In my experience see-sawing between different ways of managing social media use, all of the suggestions out there are really just mitigation (turn on iOS Screen Time), or full blown abstinence (get off the apps).

These suggestions are targeted at social media as it currently is, with never ending feeds and attention sucking notifications. It's time to start talking about, and building, social media as it should be.

At the end of last year I spent most of my time thinking about what social media would look like if it was designed to be used less, and in a way that would add value to people.

For me, that meant intentional written reflections, shared with a small circle of close friends and family. To keep me from scrolling, there would be no feed. To keep me from checking my phone, content would rarely be surfaced.

This ended up becoming Sundayy, a mindful social network that you can only check once a week (on Sunday): https://www.sundayy.app

Each day you're prompted to slow down and reflect, but there is no feed of reflections. They're all kept secret, for now. At the end of the week, on Sunday, reflections are revealed. It's a more intimate insight into how people close to you lived their week - day by day and in their own words.

We should definitely bring more awareness to monitoring screen time and curating feeds, but we should also question whether we should have to do any of that at all.