A hack that has worked for me is to randomly generate a password and write it down on a piece of paper. Use this pass on your
attention-sink websites (for me twitter and ig).
This will make it impossible to login when you aren't home which gradually helps you lessen the habit.
At home, the time to fetch the password is significant enough for me to reconsider the behavior and I'm able to overcome the fleeting urge.
For twitter specifically, Ive replaced the behavior to sometimes checking individual URLs. I've also figured out who I care about (the 4 names I can store in my head!).
I'd say Ive recuperated 95% of my time back using the random written password.
This will make it impossible to login when you aren't home which gradually helps you lessen the habit.
At home, the time to fetch the password is significant enough for me to reconsider the behavior and I'm able to overcome the fleeting urge.
For twitter specifically, Ive replaced the behavior to sometimes checking individual URLs. I've also figured out who I care about (the 4 names I can store in my head!).
I'd say Ive recuperated 95% of my time back using the random written password.