Take a Break from Social Media

We need to take time away from social media, because clearly these sites are detrimental to our health and our online privacy. Sites like Facebook and Twitter and Snapchat are programming our minds to check for notifications, to check for likes or views or retweets or comments SUBCONSCIOUSLY - it's has become a psychological need.

A lot of us have low self-esteem because we tend to isolate ourselves to our cell phones and outcast ourselves from the real world. We don't think highly of ourselves, so we look to social media sites like Snapchat and Twitter and Facebook and Instagram for a sense of validation from others, a sense of validation that we're good people.

Social media is detrimental to our online privacy - every photo you post to Instagram, every post you make on Facebook, everything you Tweet, everything you post on social media makes you vulnerable. You post too much information about your likes, your hobbies, your places of residence - that information can be used in identity theft schemes and your accounts can be hacked into. Hell, you shouldn't give away your mother's maiden name outright - that is most often a security question on account with two-step authentication. Of course it's common sense not to post your physical address, your bank account details, your passwords to websites. But oftentimes we are too willing to reveal more about ourselves, and we inadvertently give away details that could be used against us or used to hack into an account of ours.

So how do we solve this? By taking a damn break from social media. There's books to read, friends and family to hang out with, opportunities to volunteer for a charity or a church - you could do anything in the real world and become a productive member of society.

Social media is turning us into zombies.