How are people waste their time on social media?
Social media slowly became one of the biggest killers of your time. Although it can be
a great way to find information, communicate with the people you care about,
share positive content and gradually achieve your goals, it can also steal your
time on not realizing it.
Once you set up an account on various
networks that work for you, you are sure to create a habit of checking your
timeline every day. Who knows, maybe 10 minutes in the morning for
"having a quick look" turns into 2 hours in the afternoon
when you're chatting with friends all over the world? You get used to
seeing what others are doing or sharing content on these social channels.
When you sit
anywhere and you take your mobile phone in your hand, then start looking at the
screen of your phone and slowly you go on looking at the mobile phone and you
forget how many hours you have been passed on social media.
As per the
reports the people of India wasted three months out of 12 months just by
looking at their mobile phone screens in the last year in 2021. Indian people
are so addicted to social media with their mobile phones and the internet that
they are spending almost five hours on their mobile phones a day.
India is the
youngest country in the world. If the youth of India worked hard in the next 20
years, then India will become a superpower because the next 20 years will be
the time to work hard for India.
But if the
situation remains like this, then Indian people will spend about four and a
half years on social media in the next 20 years and spend six and a half years
sleeping, and basically, the Indians will be wasting their time. Then when will
these people work?
According to the
study, in the year 2021, people of India spent almost three months out of 12
months of the year on social media. Apart from this, every Indian spends on an
average four hours forty-five minutes every day on a mobile phone i.e. an
average person is spending five and a half hours on social media. This time was
four hours 30 minutes in a day in the years 2020.
And it was three
hours 45 minutes in 2019. Slowly the people of our country are getting
imprisoned on social media. And you can also call it the new age social
media economy. The people of our country are becoming slaves of social
media.
The youth spends
an average of 5 hours a day on social media, so according to this, he will
waste his 4 years and two months only on social media in the next 20 years,
if he takes an average of 8 hours of sleep per day, then this like he will
spend about 6 years 7 months in sleeping.
He will waste about 11 years in sleeping and in using mobile phones for social media out of his next 20 years, and the remaining 9 years the youth will make their country a superpower. However, even at this time, whether he would like to work hard to make the country a world guru, is also a big question.
Effect of social media on the young generation:
The youth of our
country do not want to take their eyes off the mobile phone, hats why it’s a
big challenge for India. India is at the fifth number in the whole world in
terms of wasting time on social media, which means how much time people spend in a
day looking at social media, their laptop computer, or any other gadget.
Onwards Brazil is
at 1st number, Indonesia is at 2nd number, South Korea is the third number and
Mexico is at fourth number, while developed countries like Japan, Singapore,
Canada, America, Britain, China, France, and Australia are far behind India.
Similarly, India ranks second in the whole world in terms of downloading mobile
apps. Last year in 2021, 2670 crore apps were downloaded in India.
However, China is in 1st number to download the 9,840 crore apps in last year. At present, there are more than 46 crore children in India whose age is below 18 years. If these 46 crore children make a separate country of their own, then it can become the third largest country all over the world as per population. Only Indian children's country.
Causes of Social Media Addiction:
Social media is
now one of the most popular ways to stay in touch with friends and family.
However, social media has been abused to the point that it has become one of
the biggest time wasters.
Here are some of
the reasons why you are struggling to control your social media addiction:
1. You are constantly checking your timeline.
You may think
that it's just to check what your friends are up to and what's going on in
their lives. But this is a bad habit that you need to break.
If you feel that
you are checking your timeline too often, you should consider using the
"pause" feature.
2. You get used to seeing what others are doing.
This is the very common reason that you have created a habit of checking most of the time on social media.
3. You are easily influenced by what others are doing.
Why do people get influenced by what their friends are doing on social media? people can become a little influenced by what they are doing and everyone can even copy their behaviors or lifestyle.
4. You want to look cool.
The world is
changing. People are more concerned about looking good. This is why they post
photos of themselves with what they are wearing. They want to show others what
they are wearing.
5. You want to look up to others.
Why do people get influenced by what others are doing? You can also lookup to your friends and you can also learn from their mistakes and their success.
6. You are addicted to social media.
This is the very
common reason why you are addicted to social media. You are so used to using social media that you cannot live without it.
7. You can't stop using social media.
You feel that you
can’t live without social media. This is another reason why you are addicted to
social media. You think that social media is a part of your life.
8. You feel alone.
Everybody is busy in their life and they don't have time for their loved ones. So the people feel like they are all alone and they have gotten addicted to social media.
If you are addicted to social media, you can get help from your elders and friends. You can also get help from professionals who can help you to break your habit.
Conclusion:
Till the next two
decades, the responsibility of India's economy will be on these 46 crore
children. But the challenge is that 70% of these children have become addicted
to social media.
Even though this
social media addiction is not taken seriously in our country, if we want, we
can learn something from China in this matter. China made strict rules to
protect its youth and children from online gaming and social media.
If we look at the
whole world, then the average price of 1 GB data is around 320 rupees whereas
in India the average price of 1 GB data is between 40 to 50 rupees. That is,
the internet is a very cheap drug in India because the internet is available in
our country at a very cheap price. Anyone can afford it, that's why people here
are using the Internet in an unaccountable way and addicted to social media.
Social media has
become a necessity in our daily lives. We can't go a day without using it. This is why we need to learn how to control
our social media addiction.