4 powerful habits to overcome social media addiction!

Modern days without social media is unthinkable. To match the pace with this world, every person has to connect, interact and learn. Social Media allow us to experience these very easily.

It also gives us joyful moments along with people around the world.

Now, here comes the problem. People forget to think when they should stop or pause this experience. Because every time you feel joyful, happy or excited, more dopamine hormone releases^[1][2].  This is the way your brain work!

That’s why every time you win any game, taste the best or feel your importance; your brain release more dopamine to get more pleasure.

Hence, to get more dopamine, your brain asks to repeat the task.

It’s the reason you want to watch and experience those joyful or exciting moments again. Thus, your journey to social media addiction starts!

Hopefully, now you have a little glimpse about social media addiction and how it occurs. Now, let’s talk about its prevention!

How to overcome social media addiction?

Like a typical person, I won’t advice you to stop using social media. NO! I never will! As I said earlier, it’s also a handy tool to entertainment. Until, you are in control!

Instead, I will share with you a powerful habit to completely stop the addiction, not the usage. Yes, you read it right!

Following the 4 powerful habits below, only you will decide whether to stop using the social media or keep using it without addiction.

These are 4 the habits:

1. Use any social media on a web browser (e.g. Chrome, Brave, Firefox, Microsoft Edge etc.) instead of its app.
2. On the web browser, always use the social media website on “Incognito Mode” or “Private Mode”.
3. Keep the password very lengthy and complex (combination of special characters, numbers, small letters and capital letters). Also, don’t save it any where in order not to copy-paste. [If you forget password too frequently, write the password as a hint on your secret notebook.]
4. Decrease or stop yourself from posting anything. Also, don’t react (like, comment or share) on anything.

Now, you may ask the explanation or the reason behind this? Here they are!

Reason to follow these 4 habits?

1. When you use any social media’s app, it continuously sends notifications about you or others activity. This is done to get you back to their app. Not only this, having an app on your smartphone also encourages you to keep using. That’s why many sites keep asking you to install their app. So, to reduce addiction, use their website not an app.
2. Use “Incognito/Private Mode” in web browser so that to use it every time, you have to login with password.
3. Now, when you have to enter the lengthy and complex password repeatedly, you will feel irritating. This irritation will discourage you to use it further.
4. Every time you post something (writings, images or videos), each time it gets likes or comments or both. Post Something->Get React from others->Get Happiness->Again Post Something. This cycle excites you to post more. Not to fall into this trap, stop posting anything. Similarly, don’t react on others because it will also do the same to you. That is: React on Something->Others noticed->Get Happiness->Again React on Something.

I know the first couple of days, it will be difficult for you to follow. But once you start following these habits, you will start noticing yourself.

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