60 Million Indians Want To Quit Social Media Every Year: How To Reboot Your Social Media Life?

These days the world looks smaller, people are connecting through Social Media, talking more about the trending hashtags, reporting about themselves, constantly asking you to comment while not caring about what you have to say.

Likely it adds more to the new age problems! But does it started like this or do it really have to sound like this?

 “Social Media” is a creative invention but some feels it has a detrimental effect on society. Might be for some, it has helped them find their old pals from school or college who were out of touch. And for some, it is all about that one false rumour that has destroyed their lives.

Google Searches On Quitting Social Media

Reboot Online, a company interested in e-communication, used the online analytics tool Ahrefs to determine which countries’ people are most likely to abandon social media, based on key online searches showing a strong intention to do so.

Some of the highlights from the research paper include that India is ranked second, with an average of 497,940 online searches each month from Indians indicating their willingness to leave social media.

As compared to the total number of active internet users in India (755,820,000), 0.066 per cent of Indian internet users are keen to quit social media each month.

With an average of 1,134,400 online searches per month showing their intention to leave social media permanently, Americans are the most likely to do so.

Reboot Online classified and grouped consistently recurring Google searches by individuals on quitting social media such as ‘how to delete social media?’. Also, searches were like ‘how to delete Facebook?’.

There were searches on ‘how to delete Instagram?’; ‘how to delete Tumblr?’; ‘how to delete TikTok’? and how to delete Twitter and Snapchat?. The online searches thus clearly signify users’ desire to quit social media.

According to Reboot Online, Americans are the most likely to abandon social media, with an average of 1,134,400 online searches each month reflecting their desire to do so permanently. Every day, the equivalent of 36,594 online searches.

As compared to the total number of active internet users in the United States (312,320,000), this equates to 0.363 per cent of internet users in the United States wanting to stop using it.

The United Kingdom is in third place as there is an of average 308,850 online searches every month from Brits demonstrating their desire to exit social media permanently.

The Impact Of These Platforms On  Society

Social networking sites began as a simple and efficient way to communicate with friends. We can now communicate with people and develop better relationships with friends we are unable to meet in person, as well as update them on our lives.

We can form groups with people who share similar interests and share relevant news with them, as well as ask for their opinion or feedback on the topic.

Without a doubt, technology has many advantages; however, it also has drawbacks. It has resulted in the emergence of cyberbullying. Excessive use has also been linked to addiction in users in several studies.

They feel compelled to share something on their accounts or review the posts of others during the day, as it has become an integral part of our lives. The excessive use of these apps has limited human contact.

People have isolated their lives behind their online identities as a result of social networks, which have made interacting with others easily.

Face-to-face contact and gatherings have declined, and many of us have lost the taste and allure of being together in one location.

How To Lookup From Your Screen?

We should pay more attention to the people in our immediate surroundings than to the people behind the screen.

These days the apps suggest screen pop-up ‘heavy use’ alerts, as well as the platforms, are now more vigilant in recognising users who may be suffering from mental health issues.

According to Reboot Online’s Top Tips to Limit Social Media Usage one can Switch off “Push” Notifications if one doesn’t want to be bothered. We are immediately attracted to our phone when it makes a buzz.

Push alerts for social media applications can be turned off, which is a good idea if you want to cut down on the use.

Daily Social Media Detox also allows you to set a daily target of not using these apps for at least an hour of the day while you are awake.

There are a plethora of educational influencers from a variety of fields so one can follow those and consume their content to gain useful knowledge.