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Social Media: Something that boosts you or something that pulls you down?

Social Media! Woof! Well, where do I start from? Be it Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Linked In, Viber or even Whatsapp there are endless applications that are available today! And of course with the availability of high storage capacity memory cards one can afford to have them all in their phone; except yes, for the poor iPhone users like me, who may afford it only after making or buying some space in their cloud storage. In either case, with social media we have an enormous connectivity with our ‘loved’ or even the ‘not so loved one’ these days. Where probably walking out of a relationship was rather simpler in the olden days, where a tear was shed, and a number was blocked, now the same takes hell lot of efforts due to the same enormous connectivity.  For instance, while you may be just trying to forget your ex and may have removed him from your facebook and twitter, he may appear on Instagram all of a sudden because of some mutual followers. Well, delete, delete, delete is all that you can do till of course no more new applications are launched! And why just new applications, your own facebook may at times add some salt to your healing wounds, with the constant reminders of your post which may have been a year, or even six years back! Man! Only if the technology knew what to remind and what not to remind we would have been better I guess!
Well, relationships and exes are one aspect of it, but how about a daily basis social media for an otherwise peaceful soul! “Tring” rings our alarm in the morning, and beneath the snooze and stop button, we see some tempting notifications flooded on our screens as soon as our eyes open! With the usual press the snooze and sleep again, or press the stop and wake-up; we end up beginning our day opening the exciting notifications or WhatsApp messages. Even before your poor brain comes back in coordination, and your poor lungs get some fresh air, you are drowned in others lives! You open your facebook or Instagram for instance and someone has checked-in to some airport to fly abroad “Ohh! This fella! He barely did anything in school and he has checked-in for Venice. Look at me, I am slogging hereL”, you scroll down and there goes another post, “What!! Even she has a baby; here I am, still single and sad.” Wow! Where an otherwise you may have got up fresh, may be exercised and thought about the positives of your life, your day itself begins by such silly comparisons. From what to do next, perhaps our lives have come to a state where we think, what to post next all the time! When even on a holiday I bet we see less around us, and more on our phones to make sure that we have captured the right pose and right background for more likes and more comments! Be it any social media app or even the WhatsApp we want notifications to keep ourselves busy at all times, which eventually is taking a toll on what we can actually do with ourselves, our lives, and with our surroundings.
Of course, it's not all negative, there are positives too, social media is an excellent platform for advertising your work, for staying connected with people in a healthy way, for reaching out to people you may have otherwise just dreamt of, not to forget even the big shots can be reached on Twitter. It’s actually good to be on all possible applications as long as you know, that at the end of the day it’s your work that will eventually make you successful and not your notifications. As long as you realize that if you are busy with your phone the entire day, you are still free doing nothing! And as long you do not compare your lives and your potentials with the posts on your screens.


Social media: Well it can be something that may boost you tremendously or something which may pull you down as well! It all depends on how you end up using this double-edged sword!  

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