I Cured My Social Media Addiction by Reading Books

I need to use the internet, but right now it’s using me

Simon Doherty
Forge
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5 min readMar 1, 2019

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II woke up yesterday at 8:15 a.m. and instinctively reached for my MacBook. I checked my emails and how many people had liked the article I wrote yesterday, on which someone had commented that they wanted me to kill myself. I climbed out of bed, showered, brushed my teeth, and made a cup…

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Simon Doherty
Forge
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I’m a London-based writer and this is my blog. You can read my VICE articles here: https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/simon-doherty