I recently read a great article describing some of the signs one might be addicted to social media. Below is a link to the article and the collection of signs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/01/social-media-break_n_6227410.html
I am a witness to the floods of notifications consisting of holiday meals and hourly vacation status updates. I used to constantly refresh Twitter and Instagram before I isolated myself from these sites in the summer. I noticed that many of the tweets were very similar anyways and it was pointless for me to see every tweet because I would most likely forget it in a couple of hours. One of the main solutions to stopping this addiction is to limit your access to social media. That’s exactly what I did in the summer as part of my project and it worked. Today, I usually only check social media around 11:00 a.m. and before I go to bed for about 10 minutes. After these 10 minutes, I usually come to the conclusion that I am wasting time and need to go on to do something else. I realized that I didn’t need social media in order to be happy and stay connected with people. Stronger bonds and relationships are formed through in-person interactions and my detox helped teach me this.