How To Stop Addiction to Social Media: 7 Effective Tips
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- 14 Jul 2022
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In this Modern era, Social Media has become a potent tool communication and entertainment; that billions of people across the globe cannot spend a week off Social Media and a good number of people have gotten so addicted to Social Media that they cannot even spend a day off it. This wide Addiction to Social Media is understandable, but it’s not palatable as it is a habit which you must stop if you want to make good use of your time.
In case you are fond of this bad habit of addiction to Social Media, this Article is for you as in this Article I shall give you valuable tips on how you can effectively curb your addiction to Social Media.
What Is Social Media?
Social Media is a Computer based Technology usually an application or a Website which permits it’s users to create and share contents, transmit information, and send messages to one another.
There are a couple of Social Media platforms, notably: WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, Tik Tok, Snapchat, Facebook, Blogs, Podcast, and Telegram which all currently ranks as the most popular and used Social Media platforms.
These platforms are widely used because of the numerous advantages associated with making use of them.
Benefits of Making Use Of Social Media
1. Social Media Fosters Communication as it has notably taken over Text message as the most popular resort of sending a message across to a person, especially a person whom you are not friends with or is a complete stranger.
2. Social Media helps us in Social networking as it is the easiest way for us to increase our network and make new friends especially for introverts. This is so because Social Media will provide you with the necessary platforms to interact, communicate, and bond with strangers.
3. Social Media does not only increase our network, but also increases our visibility necessary to build a large audience for ourselves or our business brand.
4. Social Media gives us access to information, as in most workplace or School, Social Media particularly WhatsApp is the medium for passing information to students, so therefore by being active on Social Media you will have speedy access to information.
5. Social Media aids learning through the online resources, materials, Articles, Research Work, and contents which enables us to read and learn, not to mention the virtual interactive platforms where we participate in Webinars and Online classes.
6. Social Media is a good source of entertainment as you cannot be on Social Media without laughing especially on Platforms such as Twitter, Tik Tok, Instagram, and YouTube due to the amazing contents, memes, comments, and interactions on these platforms.
Aside these; there are many more benefits of Social Media which best explains why people cannot do without Social Media. As a matter of fact people build their brand on social media as Influencers, Bloggers, Content Creator, Business brand and lots more, also some other people largely spend their time on Social Media for entertainment and less beneficial purposes because of their already fond addiction to Social Media.
If you are in this later category, it’s important to note that there are lots of disadvantages of such addiction to Social Media.
Disadvantages Of Addiction to Social Media
1. Social Media is time consuming as you could spend your whole day on Social Media being entertained and chatting with some friends.
2. Social Media reduces productivity because when you spend so much time on Social Media, by default you will be less productive as the time you ought to use to do something reasonable will be devoured by Social Media.
3. Social Media is a potent took of distraction especially for Student’s who are social media addicts, as such Student will rather come online instead of concentrating on reading their books and when a Teacher is teaching they will always be on their phone. Read More…
