At the age of 23, he recorded a recovery from social media addiction.
Operations assistant Marilyn Manduakila spent 20 hours a day on the phone before deciding to block contact with friends and family and delete all social media apps for two months.
During her digital detox, Marilyn, who lives in Essex, experienced the removal of “strange and unusual” symptoms such as anxiety tremors and likened her tech addiction to drug addiction.
Before the electronic cleanup, Merlin was ultimately unable to make a second date because he had an “out of control” urge to switch social networks while dating.
Now with a new perspective on life, Marlene says going to “cold turkey” has helped her improve relationships with friends and family, and she sleeps regularly.
“My favorite hobby was browsing apps like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc. It was like a drug,” he said.
“There were times when various social media apps had screen times of up to 20 hours a day.
Even after waking up all day, I crawl into Twitter and Instagram at night. I only slept two hours at night.
“When I woke up in the morning, it felt like it was only two minutes, but it was a few hours.”
Merlin says that people call him a drug addict and claims that he was never “really there”.
One day, Marin often hung up and tried to justify why she had to “turn around before lunch.”
“People who knew me weren’t sure if this was a challenge for me. I was worried that I couldn’t reinstall the app or fix the situation quickly the first day I removed the app. I was shaking,” he explained.
At first struggling to adjust, Merlin now attributed the experiment to his changed life. He also successfully completed this experiment and was offered 20,002,000 Uptime training apps for two months without social media.
Uptime has created a survey for research purposes. To start the survey, they tried to pay “social media enthusiasts who stopped using the platform for two months.”
“Also, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Snapchat and YouTube,” we read on the site.
They asked members of “Social Media Vacation” (Merlin in this case) to answer frequent questionnaires and keep a written and video diary to record their experiences.
From experience, Merlin has a hard time starting the challenge.
“Not only did I have to adapt, but everyone around me had to adapt to my access,” Merlin said.
Some friends around me forgot that I was challenging them and tried to show me the tweets.
“I closed my eyes without looking. It was annoying.
“I had a hard time in the first few weeks. I thought everyone was wondering where I was and if I was alive.”
But over time, it got easier and I slowly began to realize how much I was losing. [due to my addiction] I have found a new way to entertain myself.
I watched people and created stories about who they were and what they were doing to keep them busy.
Merlin also returned to the matter and met many more friends in person than before.
Despite initial difficulties and hesitation, Merlin successfully completed the challenge and has yet to download his favorite app.
“I don’t know how social media habits have changed, but the fact that I didn’t download or log in to the app as soon as the challenge ended shows that I’ve got my will back,” he explained.
With the proceeds from the survey, Merlin plans to travel abroad to Morocco with his loved ones. “We don’t just save some money to buy a car.”
“I’m proud to finish it,” he said.
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Source: Metro
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