Why i’m gradually quitting social media
and why you should too.
There’s some time since i started to feel drown and tired by social media, but i took the first move in order to change that yesterday.
I was on youtube and a video of a girl telling why she was quitting social media showed up to me. I got inspired and deleted my twitter (which i have been wishing to do since last year). In the day before i deleted, i had to uninstall the app from my cellphone because i needed space from memory. I did around 1PM. When it was around 3PM i was nuts because i hadn’t my “scape form” in my hands to runaway from the boredom of my class. That moment i saw how addicted and i realized that it was time to quit twitter.
And i DIDN’T. My addicted mind told me to keep with twitter uninstalled on my cellphone but mantain my account, so i could still be addicted on it but on my computer and i fell for it. In fact, when i was watching Lucy Ann’s video about quiting social media, i WAS ON TWITTER. Then i just got digussed by me and deleted. AND I WAS GREAT.
On last night i already were more present on the stuff that i was doing. I played more with my cats and notice new things about their behavior. Today i notice myself using my facebook account as a scape form so i’m still deciding if i just going to delete everybody, change the name and just keep it to get informed on an art group that i really like or if i’m gonna delete it all. I’m trying to delete my TikTok too, but they are not sending the SMS that is required to delete the account, but i have not use it for more than a month now.
The worst thing about social media is that it is designed to make you spend more time on it and get more addicted on it by OVEROVEROVERstimulating your brain. Now even whatsapp has the option to acelerate the audio. Social media totally create an army of spoiled brains and people that use it don’t even realize it. I notice that i’m spending more time taking care of my “online life” and friends than with my real ones.
People spend more time faking it online than taking care of the ones that are gonna be with them forever. I hated me when i notice, today, that i’m seeing my parents and brothers getting older and letting time go through me without spending more quality time with them than i should. This is an another article topic, but the fact is that they’re my family no matter what and being on a normal one, i should value that and spend more time among them.
With this article, i’m not saying that we all should go van life and never talk to anyone besides our family again, what i’m bringing here it’s a reflection for you to do as i am doing at this point in my life now. It’s okay to be online if you work with it or even if you really like it, you just need to set a limit and obey it or you’re going to waste 3 years that you could’ve been happier and did stuff that you like more like i did.
I’m not over this topic, i’m just starting my journey offline and i still have a lot to realized about it and evolve. I hope that you got inspired by my article!
see ya soon!
