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Social Media Use Bears Similarities to Drug Addiction.
The headline of the article blared on my computer screen during my daily morning news scroll.
(Answer: Rely on your team members like you already do.
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(Answer: Respond later and also maybe take a moment to rethink the state of your romantic relationships.
Also, stop watching so muchLaw & Order: SVU.)
Below are the 10 most important things I learned from my Instagram detox.
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Half of the time when we discuss our dating lives, Instagram is somehow involved.
I posted a selfie and he didnt like ithes dead to me.
Hes privateshould I follow him?
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How come she viewed my most recent story but didnt see the one before?
Will you watch her story from your account and tell me what it is?
(Yes, this is something people do…or maybe just my friends.)
Faith Xue
I practically sprinted to the Apple store the second I returned to New York.
I must be strong, I thought.
Looking back, being phone-less that weekend hadnt been nearly as excruciating as I would have predicted.
If anything, it was refreshingly freeing.
Heres hoping it wont take my phone dropping to the bottom of a river to start the next one.
Thats a feed post for sure, one friend said to another upon seeing a particularly flattering photo.
What should my caption be?
He watched my stories.
Will you AirDrop me those?
Instagram speak had infiltrated our vernacular, and I was all too guilty of it, too.
Not asingle personlooked up.
Cutting it out of my life had given me clarity.
It was disturbing and somewhat depressing.
(Those videos are cute as hell, though.)
“The brain, depending on what one is watching, or reading, goes into an autopilot mode.
Meet the Experts
Dr. Sanam Hafeez is an NYC-based neuropsychologist and faculty member at Columbia University.
She is also a member ofByrdie’s Beauty & Wellness Review Board.
2017:16(4):120-125.
