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How To Get Off Social Media? The Best
Ways to Independence
Do we need to get rid of social media?
It’s the beginning of 2023. The number of social media users globally grew
from
4.2 billion in January 2021 to
4.7 billion in October 2022. This
accounts for a 10.1% growth YOY of global usage. In average each of us
spends 2,5 hours of personal time daily scrolling feeds.
The number of platforms users in the United States has seen a 12.8%
increase during the pandemic. On a practical side: without networks during
global isolation, we could get into even worse mental state than therapists
reported in 2021. Social networks helped to share and validate the tough
experiences people went through during pandemic.
But the very quality of interaction has changed.
Recently I found myself
craving for dense and involved talks
– an oral practice many of us lost to
joyously tapping on the feed.
It comes as no surprise, that social media’s urge for the furiously appealing
content shifts the focus of life. Can you connect to this situation:
social
spaces are filled with people that don’t choose to converse with you, and
equally you don’t feel like updating them in person?
This fake sense of
online awareness really alarmed me. Let’s see if there’s more to it.
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How to quit social media and reduce FOMO?
Intense presence in social media is tightly connected with FOMO
– the fear
of missing out. FOMO
appeals to our social instinct,
our drive to share
experiences with people we refer to as important. Falling out of the social
agenda, seeing others having fun, enjoying life and achieving success can
make people feel inadequate.
Social media users can feel pressure to
constantly be connected and
engaged in order to not miss out on events. Otherwise, a brain, possessed
by FOMO, offers inadequate ideas on why their owner was not invited to
the party and measures personal success to that of others. This is very true
for the young adults who get the feeling in 69%
of cases by statistics of
2022.
