Social media and mental health

There’s finally some good data coming out about social media and mental health, as written about by Cal Newport.

I’m about a week into my own experiment of getting off of Twitter. I took a few important feeds that I follow for war news and added them to Reeder, which now lets you follow Twitter accounts as if they were RSS feeds.

The results are dramatic. I feel much more relaxed. And I’m not a heavy social media user.