How To Use Social Media Instead of Letting It Use You (don’t be a pawn in someone else’s game)

In this article, I present a simple program to reduce social media usage and protect yourself from it.

Excerpt: 

Most people are in an abusive relationship with social media and the intensity is only getting stronger despite what we used to predict in the past.

The brutal truth is that social media usage has never been higher. 

Of course, some will point out that Facebook's user base is shrinking and that is probably correct.

But the overall time dedication to those sites has never been larger in the history of the world. Yes, a decent chunk of younger people have switched to Instagram (which is still part of FB, technically), but their parents and grandparents are on Facebook.

Wasted Hours = The Most Important Metric

The most important metric past a certain point is not the number of users, but the number of hours spent on the platforms.

Social media know that unless there’s a massive expansion of the Internet infrastructure around the world, they won't be able to get more users.