The Influence Of Social Media Addiction

Just currently in 2017, ABC News’ ‘20/20’ reported about Brooke, the California 12 year- old teen who fell into a world of secret sexting, alcohol and drugs. Shortly before her 12th birthday she received a phone of her own and within this second Brooke quickly became obsessed, better addicted with her phone and even more with social media which took her down a dark path in life.

Addiction usually refers to compulsive behavior where people feel negatively compelled to do certain activities so often that they become a harmful habit. In that context, it is fair enough to say that social networking addictions could be considered as an irresistible urge of using social media by spending far too much time on updating a status, uploading pictures,

Who does not know the situation of unlocking the smartphone to find out something really specific and getting lost in the social networks? On social networks you will eventually be flooded and overwhelmed by people uploading thousands of images, hundreds of words and constant videos every other second. Add to that everything has notifications turned on so we can get spammed every few seconds by new information. Without social media there would be less risk of distraction because if you need information you quickly look it up on the Internet without to consider checking on any social media platform. That definitely saves time and in addition, one could focus more purposefully and concentrated on the accomplishment of tasks.

Moreover, living without social media means living more consciously and generally having a better attitude to life. Superficiality, as it is spread in social networks, no longer claims one 's own time. Instead, you can use your gained free time for doing sports, reading, baking or just visiting your grandparents and other family members more often and spend time with them, traveling with your friends to other cities, sharing hobbies and simply having

For instance, imagine you’re on Facebook. You’re idly perusing your feed and suddenly, you begin to see images of your friend’s vacation in France. Your friend looks incredibly happy in every picture and her family life appears perfect. Besides feeling jealous and inadequate, you begin to consider your ‘meager’ salary and ‘miniscule’ amount of vacation. But what you have seen are just glamour shots, probably the very best parts of your friend’s life, carefully arranged in order to present perfection. People only put their best on display so that you will find unneeded anxiety and stress in online comparisons. Without social networks people could become much happier because there is no need and no opportunity anymore comparing themselves to staged images.

Besides, on many profiles you get buy recommendations for products where companies are trying to catch consumer’s attention by presenting their products on models with slender bikini figures and pretty faces posing on lonely dream beaches which definitely increase your own desire for buying them. Although you have come right without those products until this day, you can be seduced. The feeling for your own needs blurs and you easily get