Experience sharing: Social Media Detoxification

[Disclaimer: For the past 1 month, I'd deleted my Twitter and Instagram App from my phone. To tell you the truth, I'd logged-in both my accounts 2-3 times in the entire month via Safari. This is my experience of not having the App in my phone.]

How many of you are into Twitter and/or Instagram?? Okay, let me rephrase it: "How many of you are addicted to the apps in your phone?" WELL, I AM!!!

So, one day, out of the blue, I decided to delete both of these apps from my phone. Just an additional, useless information, I'd deleted Facebook app from my phone few months back itself. Deleting these 2 apps (now) was mainly to test my patience and my social media withdrawal effect. I wanted to see what difference would it really make in my life after I seize myself from these 2 apps which I spend the most of my time at. 

Except for 2-3 times (which was really urgent, I promise), I succeeded to keep myself away. Unfortunately, there was a rebound app. Every time, I try staying away from one app, the other app comes as a rescue.

Example: Last time when I stopped using Facebook, there was Instagram. I was and I still am an avid user of this app that I keep some stupid and unnecessary information about what celebs around the world ate, wore, said and bla bla bla. I mean, what would these information add up to my CV!! 

I literally would be so lost in the world of social media that I would sometimes forget about my parents or my friends. So, it was high time that I stayed away from Instagram.

Then, was Twitter. Every morning, my day would start with twitter. It was mainly my source of national and international news and updates. Provided that, I don't read any newspaper these days, the tweets would keep me updated. No, I'm not saying it was a bad thing, but sometimes, I'd get so caught-up that I keep on going deeper and deeper into everyone's life and keep on stalking them that I was tired of myself.

So, then, I thought of trying to keep myself away from the hazards of social media. This was kind of an experiment on myself.

Coming back to the rebound app, this time it was Tiktok. Staying away from Instagram and Twitter was much easier than cutting myself off from Tiktok. I've started making Tiktok videos. And the worst part is, I can continuously stare my phone for 5-6 hours and do nothing but keep on staring. My social media addiction has gone worse.

The toll that social media has taken upon me is that, I've stopped enjoying reading books. There was a time when I could read 2-3 books in a month. I'd spend some amount of my salary in buying books-but now, books don't charm me at all. I don't have conversation with my parents-because I'm always busy in making tiktok videos during all the spare time that I get. My knitted handkerchief is still incomplete because that doesn't interest me either. All my interests and hobbies have disappeared. I've no more passionate about blogging. My creativity has rusted.

And you know what the worst part is? I feel all the adverse effects and I' still addicted to these app.