5 Reasons Why You Should Stay Off Social Media

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Social media is the plague.

It threatens our time, our relationships and even ourselves.

So many studies have proved that social media is harming us, but why are we still so engrossed by it?

That’s because once we become involved with it, it’s incredibly hard to get rid of. It’s everywhere we look. On our phones, our TVs, and even on the billboards we pass on the highway.

I only use social media because I run this blog and I can reach so many people I wouldn’t have been able to help otherwise. Other than that, I stay clear of it. Here’s why:

5 Reasons Why You Should Stay Off Social Media

1. IT WASTES VALUABLE TIME

Think about how much time we waste on social media every day. It may be entertaining us, but at what cost?

Too many times I found myself starting on one page and then just clicking and clicking until I was taken to a whole different page of someone I didn’t even know. I like to call this one stalking.

Honestly, why do we continue to do this on a daily basis? Is there an actual point?

Why do we become so consumed by something that doesn’t directly affect us? Why do we care more about what Kim Kardashian wore on a Tuesday night instead of global warming and human rights?

We should be interested in real news and real problems. Think about how much we could change in the world if we weren’t so focused on basing our self-worth on something so meaningless.

2. IT’S HIGHLY ADDICTIVE

Think about how many times you tried getting a task done only to end up on social media? How many times have you tried watching a movie only to miss half the movie because you ended up back on social media? We go on these sites just because we’re bored. Just because we’re so used to it.

It’s so easy to get addicted to it, and it becomes a lifestyle.

When you have social media apps on your phone, it’s so easy to become glued to our smartphones. We find ourselves clicking the little social media icons before we even know what’s going on. The page will load before we can ask ourselves, “What am I doing?”

I don’t know about you, but that scares me. I want to live in the here and now. I don’t want to wake up one day and realize that I spent the majority of my life on something that wasn’t real.

3. WE CAN BE WHO WE WANNA BE

We can be whoever we want to be online, and most people won’t ever pick up on it. We get to be really good liars.

Even if we’re really unhappy in our relationships, we’ll still constantly post pictures and statuses about how amazing our soulmates are. We can say we graduated with a 4.0

Ever heard of catfishing? Well, catfishing is when you pretend to be someone online by using someone else’s pictures and posting fake information on social media sites. You become a fake identity usually to make someone else fall truly, madly, deeply in love with you. There’s even an entire documentary on it.

You either have really low self-esteem, or you want to make someone else’s life miserable. Either option isn’t good.

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4. WE CAN LOOK HOW WE WANNA LOOK

It’s the era of Photoshop. We’ll see celebrities in magazines being inhuman. Perfect skin. Perfect smile. Perfect hair. Perfect body. Perfect, perfect, just so damn perfect.

We like to take these inhuman characteristics and make them our own. We’ll edit out our acne, whiten our teeth, and change the picture to a coloring that suits us face the most. Just think, we even have Photoshop on our phones. #nofilter.

We’ll take 85 pictures a day just to get one or two that we like. But once we start staring at it long enough, we begin to focus on our imperfections. My nose is crooked or one of my eyes is bigger than the other. This is then followed by us beginning to think we’re the ugliest creature to roam the Earth.

The best thing we can do is easily untag ourselves in a picture we don’t like. Hey, we get to portray us to be whoever we wanna be.

5. IT MAKES US UNHAPPY

We don’t like to admit it, but social media is a huge validation for most people’s lives. If people don’t like my new relationship status, then I have no reason to be happy in it. If nobody likes my profile picture, then I’m just a really, really ugly toad.

I am no stranger to the unhappiness that social media brings. Some of the most unhappy moments of my life were spent on Facebook.

We see things on these websites that we can’t unsee. We see people’s pasts and picture it as the present. I never really had friends, and social media really made that obvious over and over again.

My self-worth plummeted and I fell back into a deep depression on and off throughout high school and about a year into college.

The only time I started feeling like myself again was when I took hiatuses from Facebook. I finally decided to delete my it permanently a year ago. And I never looked back.

So why waste our lives away on something that is so fake? We’re real. Social media isn’t.

Do you think social media is a good or bad thing? How often do you find yourself on it?

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6 thoughts on “5 Reasons Why You Should Stay Off Social Media

  1. YASMIN NICOLLE COLINDRES DURÓN

    uff! it’s good to know someone understands the way I feel. I been thinking a really bit ago, and I think is time to detach from this fake way to “prove people you are living life”. the only thing that I am concern about is that I am an theater actress and writer, so you know to connect to promote your job, and help people( cause that what I do with my writing, help all I can to others) I don’t know how to do that. I will thank your advice regarding that. hugs and blessings

    • I wish you all the best! 🙂

  2. Khari

    KEEP UP THE GOOD TRUTHFUL WORK!

    • Thank you! I will definitely try!

  3. Natalie

    You are really cool!

    • So are you! 🙂

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