On my own social media usage, I would call it an addiction. Social media is addictive just like anything else that is an addiction, such as, drugs, alcohol, food, cigarettes, etc…
After I graduated from high school in 2012, I had gotten so addicted to Facebook usage. I was on it all day twenty-four- seven, being nosy and searching for my friends and some of my classmates that I graduated with. It was because I had gotten lonely. I wanted to stay in touch with a lot of my old friends and classmates. After a while, I got used to being alone. I realized that being on Facebook all day was a waste of time trying to connect with old classmates. A lot of my classmates and friends that I graduated with did not want to keep in touch with me anyway. I had to move on with my life finding new friends, and stop being on Facebook so much. It was a process for me limiting myself to Facebook. I started getting on it just once a day.
After Facebook, I was introduced to Instagram by my boyfriend. He showed me a lot of comedy videos created by ordinary people. I had gotten addicted to watching comedy videos on there. I was as addicted to Instagram just like I was with Facebook. So my boyfriend suggested an idea of creating our comedy videos and posting them on Instagram. That was when I thought Instagram is a much better social media site than Facebook because you can do so much on it. Facebook to me now is dull. Creating videos was becoming an addiction as well. Everything I did was an addiction for me. I used to draw, paint, and write all day. I have to have a balance in my social media usage and with anything else I do. How often I use social media today is once a day. If I just keep constantly getting on social media all day, it will affect my brain. It can affect my brain physically and psychologically. Social media addiction can make me withdraw from everything that is going on around me and not having a healthy social life with people face to face. Being addicted to social media is unhealthy.
The platforms I use once a day are Instagram, Youtube, poem apes, and writing apes, such as Poemia, Inkit writing, Mirakee, Writers Outlet, and drawing apes. I can still say that I am an active social media user because I love social media, but I just have to have that balance. I can not stay on social media all day.
How has the Coronavirus lockdown affected my usage, is that using social media has made a tremendous impact on my life. Not just me, everyone around the globe during this season of COVID-19. We are using social media to communicate with our friends and family to stay in touch. I thank God for the creation of social media, and just the idea of technology, period. My perspective on social now has changed, and I feel that social media helps us prepare for whatever disasters that occur in our present and future. Today, social media saves us.
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