Social Media Addiction

[StrawberryRed]

I'm realizing I think im addicted To instagram and tiktok. Mostly tiktok. I spend between 4-7 hours there daily and 1-2 on instagram. At peak times I can spend 12 hours in 1 day. I do have a life, I just spend all my free time online. Like when I'm on the bus, waiting for a bus, waiting in general, eating, in the restroom, before I sleep, right after I wake up etc. I even sometimes scroll while washing the dishes. I also go to sleep later ( 12) and wake up pretty early(5) every day. I've spent weeks here and there without my phone , and I've never like freaked out or anything I just get like really really bored and sadder. I do have hobbies but I think the problem is that they dont turn off my brain as much as social media does. I do jigsaw puzzles but that leaves so much space for me to think and think and think. You know? I even scroll while doing work, answer a question then scroll to the next video. Has anyone else overcome this addiction? Honestly I dont know If I even want to because I'm so uninteresting in my regular life. But maybe I'm so uninterested because I'm constantly inundating myself with all this brainrotting content made to get my attention. Idk, does anyone else have this problem?? When in not online I feel lost. Stopping scrolling feels like it genuinely hurts like it pains ro have to focus on my real life. The only thing that replaces that satisfaction and mind numbing I feel when I'm online is watching tv shows. And that's barely. I sound so pathetic complaining and ik its not as serious as a real addiction, but in alot of ways it's taking over my life.

 

[princeseadove]

I do, but it's mostly because social media is like, my only escape rn lolol. And it's kind of shabby because I lost most of my online friends and I don't like relying on my online friends smh… I go on twt most of the time, or TikTok

 

[divinemistress36]

Im like this on Reddit and Snapchat

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

Me too YouTube other social media

 

[Lo$t95]

X / Twitter was my way of occupying my mind for months until I got banned over some BS and refuse to build up my account again out of annoyance at the inconvenience and unfairness of it. Has been for the best I think.

 

[22yearsbroken]

Tbis is my only social media.. i binned FB and Twitter nearly a year ago..

 

[Jealous Blackheart]

Just quitting is not going to be realistic for most people. It's easy on paper, and some people can, but you'll have a much better chance of success replacing it with something worthwhile. What's worthwhile is going to vary from person to person so I can't get more specific.

I spend a lot of my time these days reading classic literature. I finished The Phantom of the Opera yesterday and I'm halfway through Carmilla right now.

On a fundamental level it's still just media consumption and that's why I say worthwhile to you.

 

[Halfhourdays]

Ever get addicted to 4chan.org/b/ ?

 

[Saturn_]

I used to be this way too. Think of quitting like turning on a bright light after sitting in a pitch black room for 10 hours -- hurts at first, but you'll eventually get used to it. Your hobbies will help you a lot and you have to nurture them in order to adjust and distract yourself. The 1% puts a lot of time and dedication into optimizing phones and apps to milk as much reward chemicals as possible out of the human brain, and maybe the only thing that'll help you is persistence and some degree of separation. Don't leave your phone by your bed when you go to sleep at night so you get a head start before the instinct to pick up your phone first thing in the morning. Try leaving it out of arm's reach in general so that you'd have to walk over to your phone to use it, and so you can't indulge in these bad habits absentmindedly. Another thing you could do is change the color filters on your phone to make it desaturated or grayscale. These apps rely a lot on color language to catch the eye and be immediately, subconsciously attention-grabbing and recognizable. I would consider exchanging or selling it and getting a flip-phone instead, maybe an MP3 player too in case you like listening to music on the go.

 

[Pluto]

 

[Ijustcantanymore]

My addiction is reddit. It's truly awful, I find myself mindless scrolling all the time and I literally have to throw my phone away from me.

It's all been designed this way. One more distraction for the masses to keep them from rising up and demanding a better life from the expendables in power.

 

[dreamking]

I'm realizing I think im addicted To instagram and tiktok. Mostly tiktok. I spend between 4-7 hours there daily and 1-2 on instagram. At peak times I can spend 12 hours in 1 day. I do have a life, I just spend all my free time online. Like when I'm on the bus, waiting for a bus, waiting in general, eating, in the restroom, before I sleep, right after I wake up etc. I even sometimes scroll while washing the dishes. I also go to sleep later ( 12) and wake up pretty early(5) every day. I've spent weeks here and there without my phone , and I've never like freaked out or anything I just get like really really bored and sadder. I do have hobbies but I think the problem is that they dont turn off my brain as much as social media does. I do jigsaw puzzles but that leaves so much space for me to think and think and think. You know? I even scroll while doing work, answer a question then scroll to the next video. Has anyone else overcome this addiction? Honestly I dont know If I even want to because I'm so uninteresting in my regular life. But maybe I'm so uninterested because I'm constantly inundating myself with all this brainrotting content made to get my attention. Idk, does anyone else have this problem?? When in not online I feel lost. Stopping scrolling feels like it genuinely hurts like it pains ro have to focus on my real life. The only thing that replaces that satisfaction and mind numbing I feel when I'm online is watching tv shows. And that's barely. I sound so pathetic complaining and ik its not as serious as a real addiction, but in alot of ways it's taking over my life.

Social media is Pure Poison… Try watching documentaries about things that you can relate to you instead… That will help fill that addictive void.

 

[StrawberryRed]

Ever get addicted to 4chan.org/b/ ?

No, I've never even heard of that. Is there something special about it?