A fundamental rule that is eroding the allure of social media: Information consumption != happiness I have recently engaged in a somewhat forced[0] experiment

A fundamental rule that is eroding the allure of social media: Information consumption != happiness I have recently engaged in a somewhat forced[0] experiment. I have given up nearly all social media, and apps that send me push notifications of any kind, and replaced my news diet with e-books. Now, rather than reading the daily political gossip or worse, I listen to an audio book or read an e-book about something that interests me. I feel like my brain has much more space, and I am much less stressed. [0] I broke my phone, and couldn't get the one I wanted, so I got a temporary phone that gives me a grand total of 4GB of user-available storage. I've installed very few apps.