6 Ways to Cure Your Social Media Addiction
4. List the things you learned or achieved from social media every time you finish surfing
Social media seems to have become a necessary evil these days. Constructive use of social media can harness its power and open up innumerable possibilities while unguided, directionless and idle use of such sites can lead to a mere waste of time. It is okay to keep refreshing your friend’s Facebook page to see what he or she is up to once in a while. But if you are doing it continuously, you could be wasting your precious time. Every time you use social media, list down the things you learn from it. Doing this for a week will encapsulate how much of your social media use is pure addiction and how much of it is actually useful or productive.
5. Set fixed hours for social media usage
Maintaining a time table or setting a timer can be an effective way to curb your addictive social media use. If you must indulge in your daily dose of Facebook and Twitter surfing every day, set fixed hours for it. Set a timer or an alarm on your mobile phone if you think you may forget keeping time while you are engrossed online.
6. Meet the friends you interact with online
Do you keep interacting online with those friends who you can actually meet in real life any time you want? Instead of tagging each other online, writing on one another’s Facebook Walls or commenting on photos, hang out with each other at a cafe or a park. In due course of time, you will realize how being together with your friends in person is so much more enriching and satisfying than meeting online.
