{"id":795,"date":"2025-06-22T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T04:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.wordpress.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2025-06-22T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T04:11:07","slug":"quitting-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/22\/quitting-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Quitting Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These days, I use Facebook purely for practical reasons \u2014 mainly to browse Marketplace or respond to messages from friends who still choose to connect that way. I\u2019m not active otherwise, and I don\u2019t post updates about my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven\u2019t watched a movie in over a year. In that time, I\u2019ve become a much happier person. I try to live with more intention, and before doing anything, I ask myself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIs this in the best interest of myself, or my higher self?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That question has become a quiet guide \u2014 a way to filter out distraction and align with what truly matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re curious about what I\u2019m up to, the only place you\u2019ll find any trace of it is on my blog. But to be honest, very few people read it. And I\u2019m completely okay with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s no real need for others to know what I\u2019m doing. I\u2019m content living quietly, with presence and purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days, I use Facebook purely for practical reasons \u2014 mainly to browse Marketplace or respond to messages from friends who still choose to connect that way. I\u2019m not active otherwise, and I don\u2019t post updates about my life. I haven\u2019t watched a movie in over a year. In that time, I\u2019ve become a much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}