Social media or Asocial life?

So I did a small experiment starting in Jan 2019 this year when I thought of going off social media and to be honest it’s just Instagram and Facebook majorly. I wasn’t on Snapchat, Tinder or TiKToK and any such similar apps, so there is no coming off it. And I was on and off Twitter, so my usage was less and definitely not addicted to it, so I didn’t uninstall that. Also, my reason to uninstall Instagram and Facebook was very simple-I want to see if I my productivity would go up if I would uninstall these apps and instead use the same time to read articles or write something. Now there are a lot of interesting findings of this little experiment that I shall disclose in the below write-up and it’s not all black and white. So if you are expecting me to conclude whether it’s good or bad or sermon you over how productive I became in this phase, this article is not about that.

Okay, let’s start with the first 2 weeks. So they say it is difficult (like it’s a drug) to abstain from something you were hooked onto for so long. Now I shall admit that while I wasn’t posting something every day and didn’t have tons of stories daily. I was an avid user scrolling through pages after pages, following some of my favorite celeb stories and browsing through my favorite hash tags on andI thought Instagram is just filled with these two. But it’s just what you follow that you would see more of, so if you are a…