The first and most immediate effect that I noticed was the amount of free time I suddenly seemed to have. While there was a single reason for me to get rid of the app, I never anticipated how much it would benefit every aspect of my life, including my physical and mental health. I was fed up with one specific situation, and decided I needed to separate myself from it completely. Not to mention the alarming screen time reports that my parents questioned me on every week, without failure. I was worried about where people were and what they were doing without me, the list goes on. I was worried about taking off my mascara in case I needed to snap someone goodnight. I was worried who was responding to me, and more so, who wasn’t. I began to think about all of the things I was stressed about in my life, and (with an exception for math and physics class) I found that it all stemmed from my attachment to my phone and the “people” in it. All of my friends, my connections, my hobbies seemed to come out of the screen. ![]() Not even a month ago, I would have told you that I simply could not survive without Snapchat. ![]() It’s easy to admit, though, that these are real addictions. We hear day in and day out from adults that don’t understand us that social media is bad.
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