1. It’s stealing your time
You only have 24 hours in a day and so does the person next to you. What makes the social media user different is that they spend all their free time to mindlessly skimming through their feeds. The person next to them is actively working on self-development, relationships, health, weight loss, career, getting out of debt or helping people through various ways of improvements.
2. Spending habits are going out of control
While you’re constantly looking at other people’s lives you have a constant need to buy whatever they have. It’s super easy to go from your Instagram feed to, add to cart and check out. This one is so near and dear to me, because I’ve been there too!
3. Social media creates a negative mental health battle
Whether you’re reading through the negative comments on other posts, or you’ve actively received negative comments on your own posts, either way, it’s bringing down your mood and your positive energy. Bullies are created and prey on the weak every single day. It creates self-doubt, self-worth, and the constant need for someone’s approval to live your life.
4. It captures the entire human nation and makes them anti-social
There is absolutely nothing about “social” in social media. We are being addicted to our phones and sharing comments through an electronic feed rather than having human to human relationships. I see couples, families, and friends gather together at dinner and throughout the entire time they are “connected” to their online community rather than the people in front of them.
