7-day digital detox: My week without social media

Unite Students challenges a student to a week-long digital detox. Here's what happened...

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"Could you go a week without Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? When I realised my phone was the first thing I looked at in the morning and the last thing at night, I knew I had to make a change.

"Spending too much time on your phone has been linked to increased anxiety and bad sleep. So, I decided to cut back. Would I feel better after seven days without social media? There was only one way to find out..." 

Find out what happened on the Common Room from Unite Students.