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Oh snap!

Oh, snap! The snapping sound which you know may have been heard by a lot of people when I broke the snap streak. Hang on! I will start from the start.

A few months ago, I installed Snapchat and was kind of enjoying it. I was building long snap streaks with others (mostly my students). For those who don’t know what is a streak on snap: Streaks count how many consecutive days two people have been sending Snaps to each other. Every day they send a Snap their streak gets longer. Basically, it’s like a threat that keeps getting longer and longer. Also, many are very concerned about the continuity of streak. I remember once I had forgotten to send the snap when a student reminded me to put a snap as soon as possible so that the streak doesn’t break.

I got bored of snapchat after a while and uninstalling was on my mind. Also, it was consuming quite some of my time throughout the day. The consumed time was spent on looking at snaps of other people (mostly black background photos with some stickers on it). Moreover, I ran out of things to click photos of to send on snapchat. Considering all this, I decided to uninstall the app.

Oh snap! I got messages from two – three people asking why did I break the streak. My answer was simple: I got bored, it consumed my time and didn’t boost productivity either, and I ran out of photos to send. Sending the same photos everyday became monotonous to the T. They still said, “kya sir apne streak tod diya.”

Such times test if you can get rid of something that is not beneficial to you. It proves whether your addiction is greater (even if it is boredom of max level) or your precious time. I told this to those who asked me about breaking the streak.

I was on snapchat because I enjoyed it. The moment I realised it was not proving any good and the break snapchat gave me ended up eating my precious time, I stopped it.

Social media is good and beneficial but it should only serve that purpose. One must easily be able to enter in and out of this social media world. There are many who go on a social media detox. I know that at some point, all of us are addicted to our phones and social media and the pandemic has only made it worse yet, at one point it strikes us and we feel a strong urge to take some action on it. The question is: do we?

And hey you! Thanks for being here. Means a lot. If you liked reading this, do share it with others, comment your thoughts on it and help share the optimism.

Comments

  1. Suhani Khandeshe19 June 2021 at 12:33

    Addiction to social media has become a BAD habit.....easy to get accustomed to and difficult to let it go....!

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  2. Unknown19 June 2021 at 15:43

    DAMN SIR 💖💖

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