(Newswire.net — May 10, 2021) — Checking and scrolling through social media has gotten quite common. Although social media usage is not a problem, there exists a small percentage of people who become addicted to social media, causing them to engage in an unhealthy or compulsive manner. According to a recent study, about 5 to 10% of Americans today suffer from social media addiction. With estimates from FameMass that about 210 million people around the world are addicted to the usage of the internet and social media. However, due to the global pandemic around the world, there is an even higher risk of social media addiction, resulting in more anxiety, depression, and behavioral stress worldwide.
To help avoid this addiction, here are 5 ways to beat social media addiction:
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Turn Down/Off Notifications
One of the things that cause individuals to divert their attention from work are notifications. The beeping sound of notification causes people to lose focus, causing an urge to check their phone in case of likes, comments, messages, and friend requests. Notifications cause people to check their phones continuously, resulting in unhealthy behaviors like anxiety.
To turn off notifications, simply go to the settings of your phone, go to apps, check out for permissions, there, you will find notifications and simply click on it to turn off notifications.
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Keep Your Phone Away While Sleep
The habitual checking of phones has caused many people to have disrupted sleeping patterns. Individuals stay late up all night, damaging their eyesight, brain, nerves, and causing the body to not get enough rest, resulting in laziness, dizziness, nausea, tiredness throughout the day. If the phone is next to you before while you sleep, there are chances you might keep on checking and scrolling your social media accounts during the night. Therefore, keep the phone away at a far distance to not allow it to disrupt your sleeping pattern.
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Avoid Usage Of Your Phone In The Morning
Morning represents the start of the day. It should always be healthy and energetic, leading you to stay active all day. Using your phone and checking out social media accounts in the morning may cause you to not focus on eating, waste a lot of time, and cause us to lose your focus throughout the day. Avoid phone usage in the morning as it will make us dependent on checking the phone every morning. As falling into unhealthy pattern will cause a negative level of anxiety and tension to maintain throughout daily life.
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Switch to Alternatives
What are you good at? Do you love reading books? Do you love cooking? Do you enjoy doing arts and crafts? Would you like to do the chores? Clean your home and make it look brand new? Doing such activities will help you avoid the usage of smartphones. These alternatives will develop creativity and innovative behavior within you, helping you to improve yourself every day and will help you learn about the qualities you possess within you.
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Live Without It
The best option would be to just delete your social media accounts and to live without it. Many famous people have done so and have witnessed amazing changes among them. Most of the time, people get depressed judging themselves against others photos, not getting enough likes or receiving negative comments. Once they can live without it, it’s like they got a digital detox, and live better than ever.