Annie King was the average smart and ambitious 20-year-old when social media networks started popping up and took over her free time completely. Several years later, Annie recognised the detrimental effects of social media and stepped away from them, but realised most of her friends and family were still addicted. This is what inspired her to gather all her thoughts and tips of how to step off the rat wheel of social media content once and for all without sacrificing any of the benefits social media offer.
Social platforms use AI to keep record of all your activity and learn about your online behaviour so they can show you more "relevant" content which keeps you engaged and gives them more opportunity to learn more and offer you more.
There are in total 46 proven harmful
effects of social media addiction, ranging from physical and mental health problems to
negative impacts on job and academic performance, as well as security and privacy
issues.
YOU are being sold as a number - a number of followers, a number of clicks, a number of likes, etc which businesses seek in order to ultimately secure sales of their products and services.
You have been allowing AI to decide on the content of your life for far too long.
No amount of posts, reels, videos and images is able to replace human contact and real emotions
By endlessly scrolling for more than an hour each day, you are wasting a large proportion of your life which could have been spent on quality time with quality people.