How I Stopped Scrolling My Life Away

You're reading How I Stopped Scrolling My Life Away, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. “What did you mean you didn’t know?! I posted it on Facebook!” How many times have you heard this statement from friends and family members? Staying away from social media is not easy. Everyone you know is on one single platform.  Even when you want to switch to an entirely new one, where would you go!? That is called the network effect. You’re “stuck” in this one place since everyone you know congregate on that same platform. I was a phone addict since 2011 when I received my very first mobile the HTC/T-Mobile G1. Around that time, Facebook already took over the social media reign that previously belonged to Myspace. Popular social networking services Twitter and Instagram had also witnessed daylight by then. This whole concept of posting short updates and commenting instantly on other people’s posts was fantastic at first. I jumped right in, not knowing what kind of implications this would have. Social media looked so innocent back then. It was new, it was a new way of fast communication and it was exciting. The more I continued my usage, the more I entered the infamous rabbit hole, unconsciously. 30 minutes a day changed to one hour a day. One hour a day changed to 2 hours day. Somehow social media knew how to lure me back in. The mor...
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