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Social Media and Addiction
My Social Media Experiment was to stop using Instagram and Facebook for business for 7 weeks. What happened was not what I expected.
Why did I do this?
Like many, I have a love/hate relationship with social media.
I love it because I have made both virtual and real life friends from it. It helps me market my business. I am an extrovert, I love to share and get feedback. I love to see and learn what others are up to. I love connecting with people all over the world. I love the inspiration I find. I love learning! I love introductions to writers, recipes, leaders, podcasts, and more. Being active on social media has made so many opportunities and introductions possible for me. It has helped me grow my business more than any other avenue.
I hate it because of my behavior around it, at times. it can become too much and too mindless. I find myself looking up something specific before a workout and thirty minutes later I realize I am watching somebody else work out instead of working out myself. I get sucked in pretty quickly and it doesn’t add value to my real life to watch others live theirs, if you know what I mean. It can feel like the same messaging over and over. Repetition and redundancy. People taking credit for ideas or words that are not theirs. I want to police it sometimes. I know that’s not my job, but it can…
