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 Here you can find my "long enough to be here" writings. Could be about anything I hope you'll enjoy the moment and have a good time here.
 
 ## 2022
+=> ../logs/2022-12-12 [2022-12-12] How do I control my digital life as a digital native (Gen Z) and web developer

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+# How do I control my online life as a digital native (Gen Z) and web developer
+## What do I call online life
+Well basically, almost everything that is on online, apps, web, social media, video games, arts. As long as it is connected to the world (or part of it). 
+
+On the other end, I don't consider usage of technologies part of it as it represents too much things to me. I was born in the late 90s with a PC at the age of 5... Therefore I grew up with tech, digital things and it is basically my life. But "online life" for me represents what is connected online, kinda obvious I may say.
+
+Also my "rules" seems a bit too much sometimes, but it is what I needed to avoid being 100% of my time dependent or addict. I found it perfect to me and indeed, it helped me a lot to keep my braincells alive since I applied it couple years ago. I still enjoy surfing a lot. I do not even try to leave the web or my presence on social medias, that I still use a lot. I just needed to control my way of consuming it.
+
+## Controlling over being controlled
+First thing for me has been to put a real boundary between real life, and online life. Which means I never or very rarely receive notifications. I always make sure that, I chose to open an app or my phone rather than it to call me. So I always block notifications everywhere.
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+Also, I have 0 apps on my homescreen in my phone, 0 apps on my desktop on all of my computers. 0 apps in the taskbar / docks, I just let the apps in their folders and search them via a search manager to open them. Meaning I'm not tempted to open any apps or software if I don't want too.
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+In the same mood I have 0 bookmarks on my browsers I prefer to write down the URL somewhere on my notes, I usually have 1 or 2 only because I need them for a moment. I prefer to type the website I want, not because I would be tempter to click on it, but because I hate the bookmarks bars :D. Although it helps so I don't click on any shit I can lose my time on. Oh yeah, because... I'm still surfing a lot on social medias, games, reddit, 9gag, and many different time consuming apps. So if I don't keep them somewhere on my browser in a huge bar, I won't click on them.
+
+## Mails
+### Notifs: 
+I receive just a few notifs, the most important ones. All others are silent thanks to my multiple adress management ahah. I still don't open my emails as soon as I see a notification. I can live in peace with a notification on my screen. I just let them active in case I wait for an important mail or something important happens. 
+
+### Having hundreds of mail aliases and few main mails: 
+I keep my mail organised. I have one specific email alias for each website or apps I use. Then the mails arrive automatically to some "main" mail boxes classified by themes. So, I only have 2 mail boxes connected on my phone with notifications, the more important ones. The others are connected but remain silent. 
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+Of course, I use different solutions to automatically create my aliases, otherwise it would be a gigantic pain. Meaning I only have access to some themes mail boxes like "shopping", "finance", "social media", you basically can create almost any themes you need. I obviously don't create a mail box for each website, but just a specific alias.
+
+### Keeping mail boxes empty:
+Even if I can live in peace without checking my mails, I want to keep the notification but I don't want thousands of mails a day. So basically, I never subscribe to any newsletter and make sure that if I receive any newsletter, I unsubscribe instantly. I prefer to use RSS or directly check news or updates by myself.
+
+## Social medias
+I'm on many social medias... Too much to be honest. Some are very mainstream others are not, but yeah, I manage them all the same ways. 
+
+Almost no notifications anywhere, I'm always checking my most important social medias so I know if a notif appeared. I'm very active... I sometimes turn the notifs on for some reason, when I follow an interesting thing and want to keep updated in the very moment for example on twitter. I also have some notifs on on specific groups from specific social media, where I would basically never go back during months without the notifs. 
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+
+## Messaging apps
+I don't use that much of those but same, no notifications. People can contact me by GSM if they need me, otherwise they can wait. I sometimes had notifs on groups but find it useless. I'm this type of person that will not reply or open the app even if it shows 9999+ notifications xD
+
+Exception for Discord, I use it a lot... h24 basically, but I'm in not disturb or invisble mode. And I almost check every notifications... Still don't manage to get away from it yet. And I use it also for RP games which is very time consuming, so yeah for me it is a problem. 
+
+## Gaming
+Well this is a hard part to me, probably the hardest part to apply. I'm a gamer, too much of a gamer. So yeah, I apply some things to control my addiction, but ... yeah, not that much to say here.
+
+Except I have no notifs on any games, mobile or pc. Otherwise I fell down in the abyss for hours. Even if I wait for a huge event or something big will happen in the game, I refuse to allow any notifications on any of my games. Better for me to miss something that playing 10 hours straight because of a notification.
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+I stopped playing time consuming games where you can't have a real life aside from it. I'm always on invisible or do not disturb in online games so no sound if someone messages me.