The War of Social Media

How many Social Media accounts does one person have these days. There is Insta, FB, LinkedIn, Twitter and what not. I do not even know names of others except these famous ones. But when people tell me that join this or that account, I just ignore. It is not possible for me to reach out to so many accounts. I do have an Insta and FB account which I access occasionally. My LinkedIn account has been dormant since quite some time and I am not even interested now to put up anything there. Besides these there are chat platforms like Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp and here also there is a long list of names. I do have accounts on Discord and Telegram but honestly, I hardly access them. Sometimes when I have some spare time at hand then I briefly scroll through. Since I am not active there no one even messages me. The best part is that there are same people on all these handles and still there are accounts on multiple platforms.

I use WhatsApp because I find it convenient, and that too I keep it for bare minimal necessary use. I do not understand this whole idea of being on WhatsApp or other chat modes all the time. 2 decades back we used landline phones and we would receive calls occasionally, speak to our friends once in a while, but nowadays it's like constant calling and messaging. These gadgets and the apps do have benefits but then the way we use it makes our life toxic.

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One thing I cannot handle is talking on the phone for a longer time. In my corporate life jobs, throughout the day I used to be on some or the other team call and I would feel so fed up. I was traumatized with it. Since the time I left these jobs, I have also kept my phone use to a bare minimum, sometimes so much that even if there is something important to talk to someone, I do not wish to call up.

Probably I am getting old and I cannot cope up with so much of this social media. I guess in the years to come there will be more and the ones who are not using it may be called outdated and old-fashioned. It's like the whole world revolves around social media and they are becoming like important part of our lives. But are they really? For me absolutely No. I would rather spend my time in my garden or reading a book.

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