I always wanted to make my own website but never had enough motivation until I watched this video.
Now I deleted all my twitter accounts and some of my instagram accounts, and made this website instead! Thanks to this video :)))
I enjoyed this video so much, she seems so nice, and intelligent, and has such a positive vibe…
I always wanted to delete social media,
because it’s been affecting me negatively since I started using them in high school. Their marketing team or whatever is really doing a great job and I just couldn’t stop scrolling. I always knew I was scrolling away my precious time and potential in my life.
It helped me connect to my friends for sure, but! For my mental health, I knew knowing too much of what my friends were up to was not a very good thing, so at one point I muted most of my friends’ stories and stuff. That made me feel a little better, but I was still struggling to stop scrolling through the reels. Those reels are just so fun but so meaningless! (even though it kinda helped me improve my English skills by letting me listen to native speakers and see native ppl commenting on those posts)
What was holding me back from deleting social media?
FOMO (fear of missing out) (& fear of losing ppl) for sure was one of the reasons since I was kind of “stuck” in the US when a lot of my good friends were back in Japan or wherever they are from, and I was so scared to lose those connections. But, I have LINE, I have facebook. I cannot make an excuse for that when I see the amount of time I wasted on those apps.
And, one of the biggest reasons why I couldn’t delete social media I think, is I wanted to have a place to put my thoughts out on the internet (idk if it has to be the internet yet).
Watching this video fully convinced me to make a website!
I never thought a website could replace instagram or twitter, but watching this video completely changed my mind. Now that I muted most of my friends, I was mostly using my instagram to document my favorite pictures and music. So why not do that on a website??? Yes, that is so true. PLUS I can gain some cool skills (pic editing and coding, etc.) as she said.
So finally I made my own website, and Idk how it’ll go but I hope to gain some more skills to make my ideal dream website come true in the future..! (I am struggling atm as you can see.) IF anyone is reading this far, I want you to come back to my website sometime to see how it grows :))