Social Media

Social Media Detox 1. I’ve always been the kid who’s in love with technology. Probably around a decade ago where I began using social media. Back then, I was only using it to share pictures of my minecraft world to my friends, but gradually, I started developing addiction. I’ve tried countless time to get away from social media, but at the end, I’d always find myself making excuses to reinstall them on my phone. 2. “This is so I could catch up to what my friends are doing.”, “What if one of my old friend’s trying to contact me?”, “What if there’s an important news and I’m the only one missing out?” Realizing it now, these excuses are bullshit. I’m just making excuses to open them, and started mindlessly scrolling. This happnens to almost every social media I installed. Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitter, and Youtube. 3. I’ve tried to stop using social media so many times, and everytime I stopped, I’d start to hallucinate. I’m hearing notifications, even though there’s none. The longer I’m away from social media, the more anxious I’m feeling. I don’t know what to do. My hands are itching wanting to scroll. 4. But life gotta keep on going. One day I felt really down. I was so down to the point that I’ve lost interest on everything. I stopped opening social media, and rather started writing on a note book. I haven’t checked social media for days. Even weeks. And you know what I found? Nothing. Yes, nothing. The fear that someone might contact me, that I’d miss an important news, it didn’t happen. 5. If someone needed me for something important, they would ask a close friend or a family member for my contact. If not, then It’s not important. Even when something big happened, I’d know, since I made contact with people everyday. Years of worrying, it was all for nothing. That’s why I decided to stop using social media, at least for a while.