Do you find yourself continually worried or watching social media, or have you ever observed your relationship with the Internet? What impact does it have on you? Let’s take a look at this together. I hope you come up with a lot of good ideas.
The increasing consumption of social media and how to become addiction
First of all, let’s talk about the increasing consumption of social media these days and how many people are addicted to it, many of whom have different daily routines. Some people may wake up early to go to work or some people wake up early to go to school. But the first thing we all tend to do when we wake up every morning is to pick up our phone or smartphone to update our news, messages and movements online or on social media. Every day we spend hours and hours addicted to social media that it has become a double-edged sword causing many different effects, all of which are detrimental.

Being addicted to social media or online media for a long time will have a negative impact on us in many ways, such as decreased concentration, inability to focus on anything for a long time, including decreased participation in activities and interaction with those around them. If we are more addicted to social media, it may affect our relaxation because social media will make us feel fun and enjoy us. These things can affect our own emotional control and our own mental health. Moreover, it has an impact on our working and studying. In which working and studying are very important and necessary for our daily life. In addition, social media addiction is a risky behavior that contributes to depression, stress and bipolar disorder as well. Research has shown that people who are highly socially addicted have a strong desire to be accepted online. When there is no satisfactory response, there will be suffering which can be classified as depression from the media such as Facebook Depression. This is called mono-phobia in medicine, that is a mobile insufficiency disorder classified as a type of anxiety disorder. The symptoms found are feeling irritable and anxious. In which some people have a lot of symptoms may even have symptoms of stress at all. All that has been said is very bad for us. Therefore, we should have a solution or manage our time well in consuming those social media. In order to have a positive impact on the present and in the future.
How does it affect our mental state
Addiction to social media or online media is likely to have negative consequences in any area, such as working, studying, emotional and health. It also affects our mental state as well. The cause arises from our addiction to social media or online media for a long time. If we control and manage it well, it can benefit us, but if we become too addicted to it or not manage it well enough. It can have a detrimental effect on our health and our mental state as well.

There are many disadvantages of social media, for example, it is a contributing factor to other diseases that lead to weight gain or loss, sleep problems because we spend time addicted to social media. Or online media for so long that we do not get enough sleep. This leads to a lack of self-confidence that stops us from thinking, which is why our academic performance and work efficiency are reduced. The lack of poor management makes us feel distracted from what we intend to do. Moreover, it may directly affect our mental state. It makes us feel easily irritated, mood swings are often the most affecting the mental health of adolescents, especially young women. Social media not only has a negative impact on our mood and mental health, it also has a negative impact on our mental health. But it can also lead to depression or anxiety. If we focus too much on it without realizing the appropriateness. Overuse of social media is one of the most addictive behaviors that can affect our daily lives.

So these behaviors are the more we pay attention or attach too much to it. They all have a negative effect on us in every way, including directly affecting our mental state, which is very dangerous if we cannot manage or control it.
SO why do we need social media detox?
Social media is a very prevalent thing in our lives nowadays. While being able to connect with people around the world easily is nice, some social media users take it to the extreme and use it to the point of addiction. Some tailored their life entirely around social media for others to see. Some do everything to chase engagements—the number of likes, shares, and comments. While these social media behaviors are obviously unhealthy, there are three main reasons why we all need to do social detox.
Firstly, obsession with social media is unhealthy for your body. Your eyesight will get worse from staring endlessly at a screen. Your back will get sore from sitting in place for a long time because social media is designed to hook you to use it as long as possible.

Secondly, social media is unhealthy to your mental health. People on social media always post the best of their life on the platform. When the audience sees it, they unconsciously compare themselves to those who post it, leading to unhealthy expectations of one’s self and lowering of one’s self worth.

Lastly, it wastes your time. Social media is designed to grab your attention. Procrastinating by using social media is time consuming and not very productive. While using social media from time to time is fine, it is advisable that you take a break from time to time to do something else. social media is wired to distract you. It is bad for your physical health, mental health, and productivity. By taking a break from social media, you break free from addiction. At first it will be hard because you are not used to it, but as you grow distant from it, you will realize that social media is not everything in your life.
Three Easy Ways to Do a Social Media Detox
Three Easy Ways to Do a Social Media Detox You Can Do
Start by disabling notifications or deleting applications.
Start by disabling notifications for messages sent by friends or applications. There’s even an alarm clock to avoid tampering with your phone. Including removing unused or rarely used applications to only those that are really necessary or may control playback of only some applications. It can help us reduce our obsession with our phones and social media.
Second, avoid or limit your usage of social media.
We believe that if we stop here, everyone will see that a complete decrease is not what you think, because, of course, in everyday life, we still need to speak with strangers and keep up with current events. We might simply set a time restriction on playing or limit how much time we spend on the phone itself, such as uploading images or sending text messages. Consumption of various news media, for example, may be restricted to that period. We can only play for two hours today.
Next, find activities and hobbies in which you have a desire to engage. It’s an excellent opportunity to try out new activities and hobbies. Change your attention from phone games to learning new skills, such as handicrafts or a third language. Alternatively, you might take an online course. It not only allows you to gain new skills, but it also allows you to come to know yourself better.

After social media detox is done, you may acquire these four main benefits.
Firstly, you definitely have more time to focus on yourself including your issues, your interests, and your thoughts on doing things that make you feel useful. For instance, disabling your Instagram account temporarily will take you away from people’s daily random activities in a feature called ‘story’, which you do not need to acknowledge at all. You can instead, leave your phone, and go on accomplishing your to-do-list such as choirs. It’s better than just staring at your phone and nothing is being done. Secondly, social detox escalates family time and quality. If everyone in your family is able to quit their phones and social media for some moments, the family can gather together and have conversations about lives and stuff. Giving time for your family discussion or communicating helps to understand each other more, significantly, parents may be more open to their children. Apart from the better environment, you get from avoiding social media, improving physical and mental health are obtained too. Thirdly, the screen of a computer, phone, and tablet has strong energy ‘blue light’ that can cause free radicals in the eyes affecting the retina to degenerate. Avoiding the blue light means the eyes can rest and adjust their own vision. In the long term, your eyes will be maintained for proper vision. Finally, the last benefit is the improvement of the stability of mental health.

The best representations are that you can conquer or overcome the fear of missing out, stop feeling so competitive, and eventually reconnect with the real world, basically, you will live in a moment of life. Enjoy small moments like drawing, listening to your favorite music and nature, cooking, these assist in improving your overall mood. Good things are waiting for you to discover.
