Once I was very much addicted to social media, specially Facebook. I was wasting a lot of time attending on almost every posts and arguing over shits. I was spending 10-14 hours daily. It was like I'm always there to check the notifications. Friends were pissed off. Relatives were pissed off. But I didn't care. Nothing that I did was fruitful but I didn't see the big picture! Though that phase of my life was very toxic, I didn't even try to get over it. It was like I was carrying a lot of weight on my shoulder and I was very angry all the time. Yeah, I was indeed in pain. A long period of time went that way!
When one day I was arguing over a religious post on Facebook in a very attacking way, a friend sent me an image in my inbox. It was a Mark Twin quote saying, "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
I was speechless for a moment! Then I kept thinking - have I been arguing with stupid people all these years? Really? Where does that leave me? Have they dragged me down to their level already? Or Have I been the stupidest one all along? That quote hit me a very hard! I needed to do something to get over it. I deactivated my account immediately and kept it that way for 6/7 months.
After coming back, I tried to maintain a distance from arguments and kept ignoring those kind of posts as much as I can. In the meantime I read "The Stranger By Albert Camus" which helped me a lot to be calm and quiet. I stopped judging people the way I was judging back then. Later I started ignoring almost all the posts however good or bad. Sometimes I just scrolled and sometimes I just read them but didn't react or comment. I stopped writing about films too. And Finally I was no more addicted to it. It was a relief.
Now-a-days I log in to Facebook for a small period of time. Some days I don't even log in. I spend 1 or 2 hours there in a week max. And I feel very good about it.
All I had to do is to ignore, ignore and ignore!
I have had the same experience with Facebook and some of the reasons why I left Facebook and found hive were the same.
It feels good, doesn't it? to be free of it finally. I mean, I still use it, but I don't have the urge to log in there every day or scroll for hours.
Yeah, it feels great actually!
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