The smartest decision I’ve made so far in 2018 has been deleting every social-media app from my phone. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, even my little-used Discord app — they all got ...

Delete apps. An easy first step is getting rid of any apps you've been wasting time on. Over the past year, I've deleted Facebook, Instagram and Twitter from my phone because I wanted to use them ...

All social media is designed to keep us coming back, but that’s especially true of mobile apps. In recent years, there’s been pushback against the sticky interface design on platforms like ...

A good friend of mine, let’s call him Joe, doesn’t have a single social media app on his phone. It wasn’t always like this. He made a conscious choice to uninstall all of them one day.

Billie Eilish, who has 110M followers on Instagram, revealed she’s taken the plunge and deleted all social media apps on her phone. “I don’t look at it anymore,” the 21-year-old singer ...

If all goes to plan, 2025 will be the year I manage to keep social media apps off of my phone for good. You may like I was tired of my phone demanding so much of my time, so I did something about it ...

Experts reveal the steps for a digital detox to break your social media spell. Despite the restoration of TikTok, serial scrollers — some of whom might be addicted to social apps — might still ...

The Light Phone 2 is a call-and-text-only phone that could be a viable option for parents who want their kids to own a phone, but do not want them using social media apps. The sleek phone is an ...

"Social media apps know very well how to exploit human behavior to keep you coming back." Many teens say they feel like social media apps control them instead of vice versa. "I felt this addiction.

I deleted apps with abandon, until my phone was nothing more than…a phone. Quitting online shopping and food delivery apps took a lot of work. Much like quitting smoking in my 20s, nothing else ...

If you give a kid their first phone, they’re going to ask for a social media app like TikTok. And when they download TikTok, they’ll see a funny video that reminds them of a friend.