Communications Major

Remember when the internet used to be fun?

In 2014, this platform was used for everything from charity to culture wars to gross acts of nudity. The human race is louder, angrier, shallower, and sometimes funnier than ever before and the stakes are getting higher every day.

Thanks Martin Robbins and VICE for writing the piece that all of us who write about life online wanted to write, if only we could just have blocked out the online chatter long enough to do so.

It's that time of year when overload takes its toll and we are looking for ways to declutter our lives in the New Year. A first step is to establish habits that will declutter our minds. Here's 15 really good ones - try just a few to start.