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Discussion on: Do you turn off your socials / phone sound / mobile data when doing work?

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JoelBonetR 🥇 • Edited

Sure! I quit every social media except from instagram, which I don't really use except when a colleague sends me a meme.
Only thing I keep open is Whatsapp in other screen and without notifications or sound. My phone is always in "do not disturb" mode.

Even if you don't get distracted easily, having notification noises and prompts leads your eyes to the origin of that sound, being your smartphone or a notification prompt.

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Kuberdenis

"leads your eyes to the origin of that sound"

^ This is exactly what I want to get rid of!

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JoelBonetR 🥇

Then keep only the social networks you already use for any reason, do the exercise...

I was like hey I've a facebook account which I don't visit since 4 years ago so... fk off, there's twitter which I get nervous every time I enter to read something by the amount of sillyness and stupidity I face off there... fk off as well, there's instagram... hmm meme source when following the right accounts so it stays and 9gag which is a must. Also linkedIn but we're developers so we should have it just for market study (about our own value) and job changing purposes. So it stay.

At this point set your phone and computer to do not disturb so no sound or prompts will annoy you and use the remaining social networks only when you like, not when you are summoned to by a notification 😆

Only thing I keep on are calls (vibration, no sound) because you know, there's a social contract about a call meaning something urgent is happening right now, while the rest is something that can wait.