Users You don’t have to throw out your entire phone! Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Getty Images Plus. This is  One Thing , a column with tips on how to live. Like many of us, I have struggled with social media. After a day of working at Slate, I’d close my computer, only to reach for my phone. Built in screen-time limits didn’t work; I’d just hit “ignore” over and over. Leaving my phone outside my bedroom didn’t work; there were so many hours of primo scrolling time between 6 p.m. and bedtime. So when my colleague Alex Kirshner wrote last summer about a trendy object called Brick , which offers a “blunt-object approach” to blocking (and unblocking) a selection of apps, I was intrigued. “I put my little piece of plastic in the kitchen, 15 feet away from the den where I work,” Kirshner writes. “I tap my phone to it, and Instagram goes  poof .” But this is not a recommendation for Brick.…