Top 15 Brilliant ‘Kill-Switch’ Ways To Get Over Your Social Networking Addiction And Get Your Life Back

Do you spend over 5-6 hours surfing and clicking around Facebook, Twitter etc. instead of spending time with friends?

Is tweeting, facebooking and whatsapping the first thing you do when you wake up and last thing before you close your eyes?

This kind of social media addiction has been a real problem with a lot of people – not only youngsters but even middle-age people.

Here are 15 brilliant kill-switch ways to get over it and can immediately give you positive results:

1)       Monitor your time online and use a stopwatch to set a limit.

2)      Have real human interaction i.e. a call to your friends works much better than a Facebook/WhatsApp message

3)      Do not add/follow people on Facebook/Linkedin/Twitter just because you want to increase the numbers to your network

4)      Share and interact with people of similar interests

5)      Use social networks or Apps only when you have ample of free time, when you have no work to do or you are really bored in life

6)      Updating your profile, changing your picture and sharing a new status update ONLY when there is no other important work to be done.

7)      Stop procrastinating your real work by giving you an excuse that you were busy in making friends on Facebook

8)      If you can spend countless hours on social networks, you will definitely have time to spend with close friends and family. So do that!

9)      Practice outdoors or pick up a new hobby that will keep you away from your computer and social media channels.

10)  Take the help from your friends and even help them to stop playing with phone or computers all the time.

11)    Remind yourselves of your goals in life – it can be short-term or long-term and start working on it.

12)   Get some sunshine and visit beautiful places to network

13)   Whosoever wastes your time, block them immediately.

14)   Simply switchoff your phone/applications and then power on when ‘need’ to be online.

15)   Install a firewall which will block these applications if you cannot distance yourself from it.