Digital Detox: Aiming to become social media healthy
Social Media has its various purposes and many benefits. However now social media has grown a different connection to humans, one where we treat our phones like it is a segment of our own body. We unintentionally find ourselves wandering into and out of different apps on our phones for hours, sometimes without any purpose. For many, this has become a part of their daily routine. The world spends an average of almost 3 hours on social media daily. While we may think of it as unharmful scrolling, we unconsciously compare our lives to the ones we see online. We judge ourselves and start planting the seed for low self esteem, anxiety, depression and other detrimental effects on Mental Health. This is where switching off is required and this is when Digital detox is needed. “We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two” ~ Paola Antonelli Imagine spending a day without social media, a day where you dedicate yo...