How much of your free time is spent on social media? Average daily time spent using internet is worldwide 6 hours 46 minutes. And 2 hours 32 minutes constitute of social media use. Think about how this effects our daily life.
Social media is something which literally takes hostage people’s attention. You want to take a quick look on your phone and without realising your doom-scrolling for an hour. It’s because social media provides us quick dopamine. And people become addicted to this easy dopamine.
People become almost unable to watch a long series they like. This is because the short videos people watch lowers their attention span so their brain demands only short activities which gives it high dopamine. This is how people become addicted on scrolling through social media.
How it’s like to have addiction on social media? Most people actually have an addiction on the is phone and they don’t realise it. It comes as being unable to drop the phone from the hand, becoming stressed when their phone isn’t near them and their social media’s screen time is generally around 5 hours or more.
In the end, social media highly affects our lives and should carefully handle. In some situations, it’s the best you completely delete them.