<!DOCTYPE html><htmllang="en"><head><title>(POST) Stop Using Social Media</title><linkrel="icon"type="image/x-icon"href="../../images/favicon.webp"><linkrel='stylesheet'type='text/css'href="../../style.css"><linkrel='stylesheet'href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css"media="all"><metacharset="utf-8"/><metaname="viewport"content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"></head><body><ahref="../../"><divstyle="text-align:center"><imgsrc="../../images/sufyaan.webp"></div></a><hr/><p><ahref="../../">sf.cu</a> > <astyle="color:#bd93f9"href="../">Blog</a> > <astyle="color:#bd93f9"href=".">Stop Using Social Media</a></p><h1><iclass="fa fa-clock-o"aria-hidden="true"></i>Stop Using Social Media</h1><pstyle="font-size:110%"><strong>Posted on 20 April 2023</strong></p><strong><p>Categories: </strong><astyle="color:#ff79c6"href="../software/"><iclass="fa fa-laptop"aria-hidden="true"></i>Software</a>&&<astyle="color:#ff79c6"href="../guides/"><iclass="fa fa-book"aria-hidden="true"></i>Guides</a></p><p>I know how you felt reading the title. If you are a heavy social media user, you probably said:</p><p><em>"What? Who in their right mind would delete their social media accounts? How are they supposed to live life and talk to their friends?"</em></p><p>Don't worry. That was me last year. I understand your feelings. However, the disadvantages of social media and the perks of deleting it far outweigh its benefits. In this post, I will go over the reasons why you should delete all of your social media.</p><h2><iclass="fa fa-thumbs-down"aria-hidden="true"></i>Cons of Social Media</h2><h3><iclass="fa fa-clock-o"aria-hidden="true"></i>Time-Consuming</h3><p>A study counted 5 billion internet users and it was concluded that, on average, <ahref="https://www.forbesindia.com/article/lifes/how-much-time-do-people-spend-on-social-media-and-why/79477/1">an internet user spends 6 hours and 53 minutes online per day.</a> 6. HOURS. AND. 53. MINUTES. That is almost a whole third of people's daily lives. Another study concluded that people spend more time on social media in their whole lifetime than grooming, socialising (social media !=socialising) and doing the laundry combined.</p><p>It is not as if any of the time spent is valuable. Sure, you may learn one or two 'fun facts, which will make you think that you need social media. You may talk with your friends a lot, which will make you think that your account is required to socialise with people. However, these are all nonsensical excuses that your brain makes to justify getting cheap dopamine. Imagine how much work you can get done, how many actual connections you can make with people, and how many good habits can be formed that will make you happier in the long term than social media.</p><h3><iclass="fa fa-heartbeat"aria-hidden="true"></i>Affects Your Mental Health</h3><p>Whenever people hear that social media affects your mental health, they agree but say that it does not affect them specifically. The most common argument I hear is:</p><p><em>"Yeah, I know that it affects other people. However, I am fine with it. I feel normal and do not feel depressed at all.</em></p><p>All I can say is not to trust what your brain tells you whenever you are dealing with any addiction, not just social media. Think about it. The same brain that is telling you that you should keep using social media for meaningless reasons is the one telling you that it is not affecting you.</p><p>Social media is a constant source of comparison. You open it up, view a few triggering posts, find out that your favourite actor has passed away, and see your friends perfect lives. Before closing the app, you apply filters to yourself and edit the picture as much as possible for your stories to make yourself look artificially good.</p><p>You see, not only is social media fake, it also has an absurd effect on your mental health. It has been proven that many social media platforms track you to show you personalised content. They use human psychology to ho
