You go out into the street in the evening and feel like you are shooting in a horror film, because there is not a soul in the street, and everything, because everyone is sitting at home near the computer and communicating in social networks. The problem of the 21st century is Internet addiction. It is very difficult to find a person who is not registered in any social network and does not go there at least once a day to check whether someone wrote to him or can, put it "like". Today, young people do not meet in the yard, and communicates on the Internet, the guy with the girl begins to get acquainted not with the trivial question "Does your mother need no son-in-law?", But with "Will you add me as a friend?".
Symptoms of dependence on social networks
- When the interest, why nobody writes to you, prevails, over the question, if you eat something today or not, it's time to think about the fact that you start living a virtual life.
- If the first thing you do when you wake up - turn on the computer and spend all the free time in front of the monitor during the day, this is a clear sign of dependence.
- You know about your friends only thanks to social networks, and when you last saw each other, do not remember. You look millions of photos every day, read the statuses and only know about the life of others, this is one of the main signs of dependence.
- In the list of your friends more than 2 thousand people, although, in fact, you know no more than thirty.
- You pay real money to buy some votes, so you can send someone a virtual gift or a postcard, stop and think, because you have real problems.
- If suddenly the Internet disappears for you this is the end of the world, you do not know what to do and terminate the provider's phone, everything, it's a fact - you have Internet addiction.
Compare virtual correspondence with real communication, when you can see the emotions of a person, touch it, unless a "smile" replaces a real smile.
What to do?
If you do not change something in a short time, you are so immersed in virtual life that you can never get out of there.
- Start to gradually reduce the time spent in social networks. For example, every day a maximum of half an hour. Free time to spend on real communication . Start with at least telephone conversations, this will be the first step into reality. Go to the cinema, the cafe, communicate with real people, and you will notice how pleasant and comfortable you are. If you want to share something with your friends, do not write a new status, tell them about it personally.
- Set the limit of communication on the network, if you can not control it yourself, ask someone from your relatives. In order to see the photos, read the news for half an hour, a maximum of an hour. There are even special programs that can count down time, and then block the computer.
- Remove from the phone all the programs that allow you to go to the social network, so at least on the road and away from home you will not be tempted.
- Read real books or buy an electronic version that does not have access to the Internet. Books have a positive effect on the human brain, you can concentrate on getting
specific information, and will not be distracted by all sorts of interesting links and ads. - Learn to receive information from newspapers, magazines, and news that go on TV. The Internet must be used extremely rarely, when it is really necessary. When you get rid of social addiction, you can often be on the Internet.
- And now the death number - delete all your pages in all social networks. At first it will be hard, but in a couple of weeks you will be very happy with your action, because now you have plenty of free time for real communication with your friends.