
Right up there with “eat your vegetables” and “exercise daily,” “keep off social media” has become a tenet of wellness. But with the proliferation of these addictive sites has come the proliferation of self-control methods, including the age-old detox. Social media detoxes may last any period of time, involving total abstention from our favorite sites for lurking and wasting time for a host of reasons. Perhaps you want to reclaim time lost to scrolling, improve your mental state, or take a vacation from the discourse.