Social media refers to websites and applications designed to allow people share content, and interact effectively in real time, using the internet as the connection interface.
The coverage of social media is expanding every now and then as many people join different social media sites to interact. Social media serves as a medium of sharing vital information, meeting people and making friends. Some have even found their life partner on social media. Social media has indeed made the world a global village.
Social media has been the culprit behind the poor academic performance of many students, loss of productive time of many workers, it has made many victims of heinous criminals, many have been raped by persons they met on social media, Many have been swindle and loss their fortune, some even loss their life.
As important as social media is, if left unchecked, social media can ruin life.
How to Curb Social Media Addiction
- Delete some of your social media accounts:
The first step in curbing the addiction is to limit or possibly cut off from social media. If total cut off won’t be possible, then you need to limit the number of social media accounts you have. Make sure you only activate the important and easy to control ones.
- Allocate time for social media:
Cutting off suddenly might be a little bit difficult, depending on how addicted you are to it. But you can allocate time for social media and make sure you stick to it. Have an alarm to remind you when you’re going beyond the stipulated time. Keep beating down the number of time you allocate to social media, before you know it, you’re already in charge.
- Don’t always keep your gadgets close to you:
Make the gadgets you use to access the internet a bit far from you. Create a barrier between you and them. Let’s assume that you’re fond of social media at night or you wake-up to access the social media. Keep your gadgets in the living room or dinning, in which you will have to think twice before getting off bed to where they are kept.
- Spend more time with friends and family:
It is posited that most people addicted to social media are introverts, they see the social media as a good avenue to express themselves since they can’t easily do that with facial contact. In curbing this addiction, you need to face the real reason and by doing that, you need to make more physical connection with people around.
When the temptation to access the social media arise walk up to a friend or family member and have a good conversation with them.
- Turn off notifications from social media:
To curb this addiction, make sure you turn off all forms of notifications from social media on your gadget. This will accord you the opportunity to only log in at your schedule time. Frequent notification will make you feel as if you are missing out on a whole lot of stuff, thereby making you to check on all notification you get.
- Cut off internet connection:
You may choose to go around with a phone that can’t access the internet or you purposely refuse to renew your data subscription once it expires. This will go a long way in keeping you away from social media. No internet, no social media.
- Cut down your social media friends and groups:
Scale down your social media friends and groups, keep them few as possible. By doing this, you won’t have lots of people to attend to once you get connected in your schedule time. You also need to exit yourself from some groups that are irrelevant to you. You see some groups with lots of unnecessary messages which would amount to a waste of time going through those messages. So to curb your social media addiction, you need to exit from such groups.
Curbing any form of addiction requires determination and discipline. Without this two factors, you can’t get rid of any addiction.
Determination will give you the resolution to call an end to that addiction and discipline is what will help you sustain your determination.
With determination and discipline, nearly all addiction can be broken. Now is the best time to break that addiction!
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