Another day, another endless scroll. Cat videos, stand-up clips, ad. Starlet heading to the airport, starlet heading to the gym, starlet heading to the restaurant, ad. Toxic gyaan, unboxing, ad. Right-wing propaganda, left-wing nonsense, chicken wing recipe, ad.
Why is your feed, and everyone else's, such a waste of time? It's because individual social media users rarely fight against automated curation-timelines driven by what your friends like, what advertisers think you want, and which subjects you've shown mild interest in.
Beat the bots at their own game with tips from Rohit Agrawal, a social media strategist, life coach Chetna Chakravarty, Shreya Verma, a social media manager of a beauty brand, and Dr Neha Jaiswal, a psychologist, who is currently researching social media and its impact on mental health at University of Nottingham, UK.
Actor Tom Holland went on an IG detox and returned only to reveal he was taking a social media break to focus on his mental health.
Mute, unfollow, snooze:
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