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Why I took a break from Social Media and What I’ve learnt from it.
Peace Of Missing Out and Fear Of Missing Out are just two sides of a coin.
I quit Facebook around 2 years ago.
Facebook was not for me. It didn’t excite me anymore. I started feeling that social media, and Facebook in particular, wasn’t just about being updated about what was going in other people’s lives. I wasn’t just getting updated. I was getting annoyed. I was feeling left out.
I felt that a lot of the things that started to pop up in my feed wasn’t relevant to me. No, the algorithm was perfect. It seemed relevant, but I couldn’t just relate to it anymore. There was no purpose. I was scrolling out of my boredom, and not my curiosity. I deleted my account quit Facebook forever.
Ironically, I got ‘reeled’ into Instagram.
Pun intended.
I felt that Instagram was perfect for me. It was colorful. It was trendy. It was peppy. I could see all the new things that happened in the world, if I happened to follow the right people and pages. The algorithm was quite good too. It adapted to my interests rather quickly, and soon enough the Explore section was filled with posts that I actually could relate to. Posts…
