How to get out of the trap of Social Media?

Introduction of Social Media

Social media was started to keep people connected with each other. Like Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok etc. Apart from this, we can count many platforms in the category of Social Media. By using all these networks, we stay connected to our loved ones or we are connected to the whole world. But what if it starts becoming a habit for you? What to do if social media starts controlling you? Felt weird!!! So here this thing has been explained in detail. We hope that you take it seriously and get your children out of its trap.

Infinite Scroll

Born on 1st February 1984 in California, USA, Aza Raskin invented the “great” Infinite Scroll. By making the whole world addicted to Infinite Scroll, he founded the Center for Humane Technology in 2017 which is the nonprofit Earth Species Project. You will enjoy Infinite Scroll on many platforms like TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels. This fun never ends until you leave it. Due to this habit, many people spend a lot of their time in scrolling.

How Fake News spreads on Social Media?

On social media platforms like WhatsApp, people spread any fake news like a storm without being tested. Most of the people do not even know whether this news is true or false. Sometimes in the name of religion, sometimes in the name of caste, sometimes someone targets a political party and sometimes someone targets a celebrity. Due to this fake news on social media, once people had publicly murdered an innocent person.

Sometimes the wrong news of the death of a celebrity is spread like fire. After reading all this, if you also feel that you were also involved in forwarding some fake news without knowing it, then you cannot even imagine that a message forwarded by mistake can be multiplied and mislead many people. Before doing this, you should verify on the official website or official YouTube Channel of any News Channel or Newspaper.

Increasing cases of suicide and murder in today’s young generation

Like Button in Facebook was invented to inculcate good habit in people. On Social Media, we feel relaxed in liking each other’s Photos or Videos and the “Party” in front also gets the same amount of comfort. But how is it logical to take a step like suicide when you don’t get the likes you want? It is happening nowadays. People have become used to seeing their Likes again and again. Just imagine how much more importance we have started giving to the virtual world than our real world. No one can give you more likes than your family. By coming out of the virtual world, we need to increase the proximity to the real world. This is becoming very less nowadays.

Children have started killing their parents for not letting them play games like PUBG. What kind of cruelty is this? How can thinking fall to such an extent? It is our job to put a stop to this. No one can come and explain to us. Anyway, playing indoor games cannot make your body fit. For this, outdoor games have to be played. But the stamina that is needed to play outdoor games, children have lost it in their mobile.

Social Media is taking over your mind

How long can you stay without seeing any notification on your mobile? Do try this once. Most of the people would hardly have been without unlocking their mobile for more than 15 minutes. Why is this happening to everyone? Will any of your relatives have an emergency when they send you a message or will they call you directly? By the way, every time you will not have to unlock your phone just to see the message. Sometimes you also have to see the Likes of your Facebook or Instagram. If you are a YouTuber then you also have to see Views. Is this an important task or has it become a habit now? If you want to see, then you can watch it even once a day.

Mostly it happens with everyone that forgetting the work for which the phone is unlocked, you come out of the screen after completing some second or third task. Well, so now tell whether you are running the mobile or is it running you? Of course your mobile is driving you. Because all your applications are designed in the same way so that you can give maximum of your time to it.

All the company means to its business

You are shown what you want to see. If you would have done some search in a shopping app such as FlipKart, Amazon, Myntra etc., then later you would be shown ads of the same product everywhere. Have you ever noticed this? All these ads keep coming in between you while using YouTube, Websites or any App. How does this happen? Because all your activities are monitored. Yes, your data is being tracked all the time.

The business model of all the companies is such, in which attention is given to how to keep maximum people on their screen. For example, if you are looking for a video of a recipe on YouTube and watching it, then you will get ads related to it. If you search on Google “How to lose weight fast” then you will be surrounded by related ads and similar videos will be given to you on the home screen of YouTube.

You must be thinking that all this is free and if this Internet is helping you to make everyday life easier, then this is a wrong thinking. Here you are giving your valuable time and those people are just doing their business through you.

What should we do now?

• If you have an Android phone, then go to Settings and open Digital Wellbeing and see how much time you have given to Mobile today. Here you can find out by looking at the data of the whole month whether you have got addicted to the phone or there is still some time left.
• You can give that much time to your family by removing whatever apps are kept in your phone only for Timepass.
• All the apps which have Infinite Scroll that are taking your time from you, uninstall them all.
• Switch off your mobile once a week and enjoy the beautiful world of the outside.
• Turn off all the notifications of your mobile and make it a habit to watch only when needed.
• Ignore the recommendation of YouTube and do the search yourself.
• You get all the news of the day in Television or Newspaper anyway; there is no need to update by seeing any app again and again. If there is any special news then it will come to you automatically.

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