TED MERSİN COLLEGE / 11-C
Digital Citizenship
Melisa özÇOBAN
150
I personally am one of the many who grew a social media addiction during the course of the pandemic and quarantine period we were all required to go through . I still have this addiction . I have been working extremely hard to get rid of it in the past couple of months , but in order to do so I had to get to the bottom of why I grew this addiction in the first place .
First of all , as we all know a majority of things we do in our daily lives such as shopping , working or any type of interaction we have with people have been moved to online platforms . The transition from regular and in person interactions to online communication has started a long ago , but was speeded up with the appearance of Covid-19 and the pandemic it resulted in . Furthermore , as a person who always commented on others who spent a lot of time on their phones and called them asocial ; I started spending more time on my phone with the beginning of the pandemic when I would read countless news , articles about the spread of the virus and would spend hours looking at jokes and memes about it afterwards to relax my mind and to prevent myself from overthinking and panicking about the situation . As time went on and more places started temporarily closing one after another , places such as stores , banks , malls , grocery stores and many other places I often went to , I along with everybody else had to adapt to a new lifestyle , in which I had no choice but to do everything from home , through my mobile device .
When it comes to making differences in your life , if they are huge differences such as changing your lifestyle , you do not notice the transition period , you sometimes even only realize the changes after they happen when you look back at your lifestyle and be surprised by how different it used to be . That is exactly what happened to me when I looked back at my lifestyle before Covid-19 and was surprised by how I did not even spend the same amount of time on my phone in a week that I now do in one day and how I used to physically go to places to get things done rather than doing everything online like I do now .