Social Media — Make or Break?
Oh no! I’ve wasted so much time scrolling through my phone today! What a waste of a day. I might just have done something productive! Oh wait what? My digital wellbeing says 3 hours of phone usage? 4 hours? OH GOD, Why am I so distracted. Instagram is becoming an addiction, what am I supposed to do?
Heard this much? Maybe we are in different paradigms then! This is how I would phrase it:
Oh let me check out what’s trending on Instagram! DIY reels, Hmm I could make that. Oh this sketch process video is so inspiring, I can try it this way. Oh damn! This recipe looks yum, do I have the ingredients for it? This song sounds so cool, I can try choreographing it my way, it’s going to be fun! This design is wow, it’s a brilliant idea!
Yup! That’s what my scrolling sounds like on a typical day! The CONTENT MATTERS.
It’s not just about Instagram, be it Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Telegram or Whatsapp too. The people we speak to and the content we follow really drives where we take ourselves to be. Some debate that social media is bad, but believe me it’s not. Hashtags are a fun way to search for interests too.
Not just about learning, even at the times where I’m just seeing travel videos or dance videos, I’m rejuvenating myself by watching what I like. Social media has always been a driving force for so many of us. We do find ourselves opening one or the other app in a fraction of second of us being idle. Is that an addiction or is it just human nature nowadays?
Sometimes it does get addictive, but most times, it doesn’t!
As it is not a priority, it is a leisure scroll. New age apps have also made us connect with such long lost friends. Forget our generation, our elder generations cherish these connections too. It’s only making us ‘US’ in this way and not breaking us from being ourselves.
The baseline still remains, depending on how we curate our feeds, with who and what we follow, Makes OR Breaks us!
I am the one who decides how it affects me and that’s what really matters, right?
