Feeling app-t out & overwhelmed by a digital avalanche

Can we get back to the real already!?!

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott.

I am absolutely drained — enough with the endless stream of app suggestions already. Seriously, another AI-powered tool? A health tracker? A day planner? Give me a break. It’s like every day there is a new ‘must-have’ app promising to optimize my life, but honestly, all it’s optimizing is my stress level. It’s like we’re adrift in an infinite ocean of applications, each claiming to be the panacea for our woes, the secret to our efficiency, or the bridge to our social lives. But let me be clear: I’ve hit my limit — I’m “app-t out.” I’m cutting through the digital clamor to make a straightforward plea: Please, in the name of all that is uncomplicated, let’s put a pause on creating more apps.

So here is my straightforward plea:

Can we please, in the name of simplicity, take a pause from creating yet another application?

Today, I decided to uninstall Instagram. I’m not on Facebook either — though there’s an old profile of mine from 2011 lingering somewhere in the digital ether that I can’t access anymore. I also got rid of TikTok, an account I barely touched, and X (formerly Twitter)…