The rise of social media has left many young people feeling guilty and uneasy about their screen time, shaped both by external judgment from older generations and an internal sense that their attention and time are slowly being drained online. Yet despite being highly aware of these harms, many do not respond by substantially reducing device use. Instead, many adopt practices of carefully selecting what they watch, read, and engage with, curating their use of social media platforms in ways that feel intentional and “mindful.” Curation becomes a form of self-rescue: a way to create small pockets of meaning, identity, and symbolic order within an environment that feels overwhelming. This project explores how these practices function as survival strategies and performances of control in an age of digital overload. My objective is to read these behaviours as everyday strategies of agency and symbolic resistance to platforms, and to carry these insights into broader conversations about digital well-being and media policy.