Facebook addiction: Growing fight to withdraw from social media

“I have to get rid of this addiction”; “I have been out of it for a week now, and I have never felt better”…these are the words constantly heard from our kith and kin off late; the growing addiction to use Facebook is significantly affecting the lives of those who use it – the constant checking of incoming updates from friends, the need or obligation to like, comment and share stuff despite the other important schedules in daily life taking priority has slowly become a concern more than an advantage in the recent times.

Facebook boasts of the highest engagement of users all over the world. Practically everyone and anyone is now on Facebook, available to socialise virtually. Family, friends, cousins, unknown contacts – all hover around one’s wall, keeping actively in touch. However, the over abuse of the platform has started to yield some disastrous outcomes; virtual affairs and breakups, online abuse, loss of real life indulging in the internet, depression, identity crisis and so on. While the intent was to just ‘network socially’, the obsessive dosage is slowly getting on the nerves on the people who are finally trying to shake the habit off.

More and more people are now trying ways to kill the addiction – just like kicking the habit of smoking and alcohol. While there are no calculated measures to balance the act of staying socially active these days, staying away from social networking for a week or two has shown tremendous improvement in an individual’s quality of life. The users are now trying to honestly and seriously log off from their mobile apps, switch on the reality once again and focus on the beauties of staying alive – literally!

So the boom of social networks is finally seeing a slowdown, with some reality checks happening as to what damage an excessive addiction can do. As the researches and analysts predict the decline of these platforms by 2017, a sizeable number of user groups are now trying to kick the habit away for good in order to restore a social and personal balance. How far they will succeed largely depends on how strong the resolutions are!