many of us have been on social media for the best part of a decade and a lot of us have had
the same account since the start okay perhaps under a less embarrassing name than cool c22
i don't believe that deleting social media is the best option for all of us but i do think it's
essential that we tried to take a couple weeks off and refresh it from all of the people we follow to
the post under our name from eight years ago so here is why you need to take a social media detox
first of all to give your eyes a rest has anyone ever been on tick tock for that long
you actually get an advert saying hey you should probably give your eyes a rest for a while
because i have and that was kind of embarrassing i think we forget how bad it is
for our eyesight to be on our phones 24 7 and to be scrolling and scrolling endlessly and
also how bad it can be for our brain i feel like when i go on social media or even watch
youtube videos for too long i go into this weird brain fog and i come out feeling really awful and
i don't know what it is sometimes i might have watched great videos and really enjoyed them but
i just pushed the limits a little bit too much and i come out like a drain zombie i imagine
that all of us want to be seeing when we're 60 years old and you should definitely look at some
of the studies that show how bad these blue light rays really are for our eyes secondly i think if
you take a social media detox even if short is one week you can come back to reality and forget about
the virtual world for a while and realize what life is actually like we're constantly seeing
so many things that you know when we see we believe and we think oh is that what a natural
woman looks like and we forget about things like facetune and we forget these people aren't posting
their best days and so a lot of social media is fake not necessarily in a bad way it makes sense
you don't want to share the bad moments with the world and you do want to share the good moments
but if you stay on the social world for too long you start to forget that other people do have bad
moments and you feel like you're the only one who's ever having a bad day and you're having
the worst life because you're seeing your bad moments you're not seeing their bad moments
also in general i think coming back into the the real world could really help you with your social
interactions i know that post covid the first time i saw my friend i like could not communicate and i
was so nervous meeting them and it took me a while to adjust back and i feel like that was partially
because for so long the only time i was seeing people was via a text or a video call you know
i feel like social media can really lower our real social interactions which is ironic another reason
and i would argue the most important is because social media can really destroy your self-esteem
and it's something that people never used to experience to the extent that young girls and
young men do today actually not even young people anyone who's on the social world i'm so used to
following models probably for inspiration or some fashion advice or even just because i'm envious of
them and it's so backwards because it means every single time i see a photo from someone that's like
super pretty or wearing the coolest outfit that i could never afford i start feeling really bad
about myself you know i can't afford to go to dubai or the maldives and that's okay with me
but when i constantly see all of these rich famous successful people doing that it does kind of stick
it to me a little bit with social media as well we i feel like we look at ourselves so much more
and in the six months that i've not been on social media i realize how little i look at my face
and that sounds weird especially since i am on youtube but for example i don't have any mirrors
in my room my front phone screen is smashed and so i don't really have any pictures to sit and
pick apart and think oh this isn't good enough to post the only time i get photos is when i
genuinely want the photo with someone and i think it's benefited my self-esteem so much
not comparing myself to all of these people who may or may not be using facetune like i said
earlier on social media is not necessarily real life and we can't blame people for not showing
the good and the bad but it's hard to remember that there are bads and it's hard to remember
that you know these beautiful people that we're following also get bloated they also eat pizzas
when they have a craving and they're not always sitting by a palm tree slipping on a cocktail
another super important thing i've learned from deleting social media is that i wasn't necessarily
attached to social media as i thought but i was attached to my specific account because for 10
years straight i'd been using the same instagram the same facebook and therefore i had all of these
memories on it that i found really hard to give up i know that when i deleted social media i found
a really easy way to download the files it's not as hard as it looks and it meant that it's on me
i'm not connecting all of my memories to an app that may disappear in 10 years you know these
photos are made and i have them physically or i have them on an sd card somewhere i just think
if everyone did that maybe we would have such a connection to some social medias i mean i know
a lot of people that keep snapchat for example just because they have all the memories down
there they don't use snapchat anymore it's just they're connected to the documents that are on it
now like i was talking about comparison earlier on i think if we also took a huge
refresh on everyone we're following this would change the game for sure and it would make your
social media experience a little bit less toxic so before i actually deleted social
media fully i took a month on instagram where i deleted everyone and i actually took a couple
days instagram doesn't really enjoy you removing like a thousand people from your following list
but i removed every single person and then i went back and i checked like i typed on the search bar
the names of the people i wanted to follow back and that only led to 18 people you know 18 friends
and family of mine and it meant that i wasn't connecting myself and trying to keep up with
1000 people that you know the majority of them i met one time or i'll definitely never see again
i think a great thing that could happen when you take a detox from social media is you could
actually find a hobby that will keep you off the screen for a little bit longer when you do go back
one hobby that i really got into when i deleted social media was i got back into reading books
which was great and i've learned so much over the past six months and i really enjoyed reading
again for the first time since i was like a young teenager and i know that this is a hobby that i
don't feel bad about even if i'm reading fiction and i'm not necessarily learning anything at least
i'm not destroying my eyesight by staring at my phone from like this distance now like i have
said many times i do just want to reiterate i'm not saying delete social media and even from my
experience of deleting it i don't know if i would recommend people to fully cut off the virtual
world because i've come to a conclusion that you do have to adapt and you know follow the tide if
everyone else is onto the virtual world now it'd be weird to be the only person that isn't you know
i know personally that there's certain social media apps that are not good for my health like
tick tock per se because short form content just really destroys my brain and waste a filled day
you know but that's not to say that every single social media app is bad for you i think there's
a lot of good in social media and it's a great way to stay up to date with your friends especially in
times like this where you can't always see them physically where would we be without social
media right now like i have no idea personally it's a great way to stay informed with the news
and politics that you're interested in and to stay up to date with places in the world that
maybe you wouldn't come across normally so don't take this as i hate social media video because i
definitely don't and as someone who posts on youtube i think it would be really ironic for
me to tell everyone to delete every single social media app and never come back again because i just
think there's certain social media apps that are better for certain people one more thing to add a
detox can be as short as one week or it could be as long six months like i've done but you should
definitely have a think about whether it's been a long time since you've last taken a break that
long from social media and you should definitely try it out and you know give yourself a refresh
and a reset on and be able to realize what's the difference between the virtual world and the real
world because at the end of the day it's going to be a great thing for your health at the very least
and maybe you'll know that you missed social media more than you thought you would
okay thank you very much for watching this video i hope you enjoyed if you did hear two more videos
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