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Do you remember when everyone started getting Facebook? I remember coming home from school and creating my account with one of my best friends at the time, and we carefully thought about everything I put on there. I would later delete that Facebook account for personal reasons. 

How many hours a day do you spend on social media? Go ahead and factor in the times when you are alone, maybe waiting for your friends before lunch, and scrolling through Twitter just to not look awkward because you are standing outside of the cafeteria by yourself. When you are alone, do you often go on social media so that people won't talk to you? 

I'm guilty of being in both those scenarios and doing those exact things. Our phones have become our safety nets. We rely on them when we have no other form of entertainment.

So, here's the next thing: how obsessed are you with social media? If I followed you on Instagram and you followed me back, then I later unfollowed you, how long would it take you to notice? I do not pay attention to this. I have never been that concerned with who follows me, but I know people that are. For example, I have unfollowed people on social media and received angry text messages coming up with reasons on why I didn't want to follow them. The reason that people unfollow others on social media is really simple. They just don't want to follow you anymore. I don't know why this is such a big craze, but if it bothers you, let it go. Nobody has time to listen to you get angry because you lost one of 249 followers on your Instagram.

Also, do you delete posts if they don't get a certain amount of likes? I've seen people do this and I simply cannot understand it. The obsession with people approving of you on social media is one you should try to let go of.

Don't get me wrong. There are a lot of wonderful parts of social media. Staying connected to distant family or activities at school -- the only reason I created my new Facebook -- is important. So, I guess you just have to make up your own mind. Or is it like everything in the twenty-first century where it'll be obsessed over and then later die away. Remember MySpace?

catch you later,

Karleigh

"The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other." // JR