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Valeria Reyes

English 1302

Judith McCann

9, February 2022

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People sometimes feel that social media can be very addicting to them. One specific social

media that is very addicting is facebook. Mostly all the time people are on their phones scrolling

down where they find pictures, videos, comments, and other people’s profiles. This may cause

some addiction to people when they are not in touch with this social media. Facebook is a social

media where it can cause people a lot of anxiety, addiction, and can even change their personality.

To begin with, Facebook is a social media where people can have some fun and release

their stress. However, spending too much time on this social media can affect people in their life.

Think about it when you are not in your favorite app how do you react? Do your moods change?

Do you get anxiety? Researchers have discovered that there are many side effects when people use

too much facebook. It is surprising how much time people spend on facebook every day.

According to the Article “Facebook addiction and personality” it stated that people spend about 60

min every 5-6 times a day. Think about how people could do too many things that can benefit

them instead of sitting down and scrolling through facebook. When people don’t use facebook

they feel different personalities such as loneliness and narcissism. This means that people tend to

feel alone when they don’t use this social media. One of the reasons why they tend to feel lonely is

because they are used to being alone and never socialize with people instead they message people
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through social media. This can also affect people because they tend to get used to only

communicating with people on social media instead of socializing person to person. People can

also have a mood of narcissism because when they are in social media they tend to only focus on

themselves and not focus on other people.

Since there are so many positive and negative outcomes when people do not use facebook,

there was a five day experiment where the person had to avoid using facebook. This person could

use other social media except facebook because that was the “app” she was more attached to. The

first attempt this person just tried to hide the app on her phone and avoid using. Unfortunately, this

method failed because the second day of the experiment she forgot she couldn’t use facebook.

This person felt anxiety in those two days when she did not use social media. In fact, this person

felt that she had to login to facebook in order to feel more calm. The second method this person

used to avoid using facebook was to uninstall only facebook and keep messenger. This person only

uninstalled facebook because she felt that messenger was not going to lead her to use facebook.

Unfortunately, this method also failed because the person “had” to install facebook because she

received a message thru messenger. As we can see it was very hard for the person to avoid

facebook every time she would unconsciously open the app which made her use facebook. The

Third method this person used to avoid using facebook was to uninstall both facebook and

messenger. According to this person, uninstalling both apps was very helpful because she did not

have any temptations which would prevent her from installing facebook again. After too many

methods this person found the perfect method to avoid using this social media. Unfortunately, this

person had to start her experiment again after 4 days of trying different methods. This person
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described how she felt everyday she did not use social media and what she was doing to avoid

breaking the rule.

To start off, The first day this person felt she had anxiety and felt very lonely. Since this

person would always message her friends , she felt she did not have any friends which made her

feel very antisocial. One of the ways this person would try to avoid using social media was by

studying more for her classes and trying to do a hobby. Although this person was trying to avoid

using social media she was about to install facebook ,but she reminded herself that she couldn’t use

it. This person had mood changes, because she felt she had to use facebook. This person felt sad

because she couldn’t see what her friends were doing and she couldn’t communicate with them.

She also felt bored because even though she was doing interesting things she felt that she needed to

use facebook to feel busy. The second day of this experiment the person felt the same or worse.

Everything started to increase such as sadness, anxiety, and loneliness. Some of the ways this

person would try to avoid installing facebook was by cooking, spending time with her family, and

trying to only focus on herself. She mentioned that this method really helped her because it not

only helped her forget about facebook ,but also spent time with her family and learned how to

cook. Although this person felt with company when she was with her family, she still felt lonely.

One of the reasons why this person still felt lonely is because she was not used to spending time

with her family and she rarely would make conversation with them. This person also felt she was

missing something to do every 30 minutes since she would always check her facebook to see if her

friends had posted something know she felt she was not in touch with them,