{"id":956,"date":"2017-08-23T12:12:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artattackk.com\/blogs\/?post_type=socialmedia&p=956"},"modified":"2024-07-14T14:57:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T14:57:51","slug":"war-on-social-media-the-quieter-way-of-unlearning","status":"publish","type":"socialmedia","link":"https:\/\/artattackk.com\/blogs\/social-media\/war-on-social-media-the-quieter-way-of-unlearning\/","title":{"rendered":"War on Social Media: The Quieter Way of \u201cUnlearning\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why not Social Media?<\/h3>\n

Why are we making a fuss about everything that we did to reach here and planning to continue on for a couple of more
\nyears only to realize it again?<\/p>\n

We shouldn\u2019t discuss about it as there is no point in demolishing the old stereotypes only to build them again.<\/p>\n

See for an example, if I go \u201cCold Turkey\u201d<\/em> and quit social media<\/strong> for a week or probably a
\nmonth, then what is the guarantee that I\u2019ll remember what I\u2019ve learned, like forever?<\/p>\n

That my friend, time will tell!<\/p>\n

We here, just can pray and do our duties, rest is up to God, and how he wants to see things done!<\/p>\n

\"quit<\/p>\n

So, let\u2019s get on with my personal experience of making it a reality rather than the virtual world of social
\nmedia<\/strong>. I\u2019ll be sharing with you guys my journey throughout the week of my detox.<\/p>\n

But, before that, read about the myths of social media<\/a> here, so that you\u2019ll be able to decide better.<\/p>\n

Day 1: Is this F***ing Necessary?<\/h3>\n

Yeah! That is the exact same question I asked myself before deciding to call it
\nsquare.<\/p>\n

Social media was over for me, and I thought the whole world can go f**k itself as I \u201csupposedly\u201d<\/em> don\u2019t give a
\ndamn on whatever you guys think about me on some stupid site with an opinion comprising of limited no of things and
\nresources that you\u2019ve seen or experienced in your life.<\/p>\n

(Also read: the best way to deal with trollers<\/a>)<\/p>\n

For me, it was just to ensure that I set aside all the negative
\nstupidity<\/strong> (yeah, negativity is fine but negativity with stupidity is death defying, and I envy such things
\nthat don\u2019t follow the laws of nature)<\/p>\n

\"the<\/p>\n

So, anyway I uninstalled<\/strong> (didn\u2019t delete my account as I knew I\u2019m just a hypocrite just like the rest of
\nthe world) social media apps<\/strong> from my phone and just waited for something to happen.<\/p>\n

Like I should feel liberated, or a huge burden has been lifted. But, I felt
\nnothing, absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n

I was using social media anyway, as we talk with people the way we should, only outward interactions. (Isn\u2019t both just
\nthe same?)<\/p>\n

So, anyway I quitted social media in the old cold Turkish way, and what I feel?<\/p>\n

Nothing till now!<\/p>\n

Day 2: Cutting Out the Crap<\/h3>\n

\"Cutting<\/p>\n

What is crap? You tell me, as I don\u2019t know what should be termed as crap.<\/p>\n

Like someone writing bad about you on social media<\/strong>? (But, that\u2019s good actually as he\/she is spitting it
\nout somewhere and what\u2019s better than on a screen, not your face), you have to deal with a lot of people posting their
\nown opinion on the most tangential topics like religious obesity<\/strong> and art in the
\ncountry<\/strong> (That\u2019s what you are doing as well, right?), you get to know people\u2019s check-ins in
\nairports<\/strong> then again check-ins when they get off and then hotel check-ins and then heritage site check-ins and
\nthen pictures of food (like loads of them) and so on.<\/p>\n

\"life<\/p>\n

But I want to ask, what\u2019s your problem with all of it?<\/p>\n

Social media was made to share important things and life events<\/strong> with closed ones, and if they find
\nthese details intricate, then what\u2019s you got to with it?<\/p>\n

So, the day lasted for 24 hours as it should be without much to do but rant about
\nand constantly finding flaws in social media, not the people themselves.<\/p>\n

Day 3: Finding Something Substantial to do With My Life<\/h3>\n

\"Finding<\/p>\n

I would love to share it with you guys but can\u2019t, as when I share things they
\nbecome less and less important to me! And, that\u2019s something I can\u2019t afford as of now!<\/p>\n

So, anyway I got this awesome idea while brainstorming (alone) and decided to go with it for my new script!<\/p>\n

How cool is that?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not an example of how things just got productive, but you can take it in whatever manner you like! Well, so I
\ndidn\u2019t touch Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, Twitter<\/a> to look up for new ideas. Instead, I Googled it.<\/p>\n

And I pulled up this great webpage talking about categories that are in trend that deserve to be written about.<\/p>\n

(Question<\/strong>: If we interact with someone on the internet using some web browser or something, with our
\nquestion and get an answer of what we were looking for, will it be called social media as we are interacting with other
\nhuman beings using virtual medium?Answer<\/strong>: No! Social media<\/strong> has the rights to deal with
\nstupidity only. It has no shares in quality engagement<\/strong>. )<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lie you keep on telling yourself that has gone into such a depth that it
\nhas transcended the line between the truth and lies.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll give social media a new definition some other time and would implement it as well, but, as of now, we\u2019re
\nabstaining ourselves from indulging into anything related to destruction! Would that rule out social media as well?<\/p>\n

Oh, then we need to find some other topic to talk about.<\/p>\n

Day 4: Unthinkable Just Happened<\/h3>\n

\"Unthinkable<\/p>\n

Can you believe it? I enjoyed my bus ride<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Yeah, the yucky sweat pouring outwards off other human beings felt great again, I
\nstared at a new girl on my way to office and we were locked in an eye combat for almost 2 minutes, I felt bad about
\neveryone plugging in their headphones and forgotten how to live? (About time I guess \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I got down, looked around myself and noticed how everyone has ignored the heavenly essence of air, ground and sand, most
\nimportantly sand.<\/p>\n

I reached my office and shared the news with my \u201cfriends\u201d<\/em> about the
\n\u201cnew things\u201d<\/em> that I\u2019ve just discovered.<\/p>\n

Guess what they told me? They laughed at my face and made some awfully predictable eye contacts with each other. (I know
\nI\u2019ve a lot to do in order to understand how things, people and emotions function, and also how you should react when you
\nalready know what they are talking about!)<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it the main reason why I created so many social media accounts at the first
\nplace?<\/p>\n

Day 5: The Creation of a New Universe<\/h3>\n

\"Creation<\/p>\n

Well, that has been long overdue. I\u2019ve already traveled a long way down the road
\nto getting bored of this universe, and some changes were exactly what I was looking for.<\/p>\n

So, why not be a little fluffy and exploit the lucidity of our brains<\/strong> to make something that can later
\nbe attributed to the lucidity of brains to abstain ourselves from any sins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I created a new channel, and here I\u2019m gonna describe it all.<\/p>\n

Or what I was doing from past one and a half year?<\/p>\n

Exactly, writing!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, it ain\u2019t no help! But, yeah you can ease out the pain using these naughty
\nlittle letters without anyone but you judging yourself.<\/p>\n

Is it fun? Not at all!<\/p>\n

So, I wanted to go back to my old and neat little tricks of satisfying my ever-sustaining hunger for attention! But,
\nthere was not a way!<\/p>\n

People just won\u2019t give me attention! Why not? I don\u2019t know! Or maybe I do know.
\nIt\u2019s because I\u2019ve never given them that!<\/p>\n

But, I\u2019ve given them all the attention that they can possibly need! But, it\u2019s never enough with us humans, right?<\/p>\n

So I did what was possible, trying to interact with everybody around me with the arguments that I feel are important and
\nconstructive towards building a new society!<\/p>\n

Well again guess what? People like motivation only in images and somewhere where
\nthey don\u2019t get to know the source of it or at least personally know who\u2019s behind it!<\/p>\n

(Also read: How social media has divided us in the process of uniting humanity<\/a>)<\/p>\n

It looks to them as some cynic running his regular errands to live out his rest of the life thinking that he was off, at
\nleast some sort of importance.<\/p>\n

Guess what he doesn\u2019t know? (I\u2019m tired of guessing, tell me something else)<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s exactly they said. They were tired of listening and told me to go away and ditch around my face in some
\nother mud stricken pond instead of telling them that their ideologies are shitty and downright insignificant.<\/p>\n

What did I do? I ditched my face in mud only to realize that mud won\u2019t talk back
\nto me and obviously won\u2019t help me with making this society a better place to live and die.<\/p>\n

Day 6: Missing the Fun<\/h3>\n

\"Missing<\/p>\n

Missing the fun? Yeah like real, real bad!<\/p>\n

What is fun?<\/strong> I ask you again! Something that makes you chill and forget about your boring daily tasks.
\nIsn\u2019t too much fun and chilling makes fun boring itself?<\/p>\n

I was bored of having fun on social media, and looking funny when I don\u2019t want to,
\nand liking the fun and cute activities just because they are funny, liking memes as they already have so many likes,
\nso one like wouldn\u2019t grab too much unnecessary attention! (Yeah, too much lately!)<\/p>\n

Again, what is unnecessary<\/strong>? We\u2019ll talk about it some other time as it\u2019s not related to our topic at
\nhand!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been six long days since I\u2019ve had my last social interaction, I\u2019m still sending out my thoughts and ideas
\nto the void above<\/strong>; however, there is no direct way that they can be decoded. So, it\u2019s a waste, even if they
\ncan be decoded wouldn\u2019t it still be a waste?<\/p>\n

So much wastage that I feel like my life is wasting away just like a wisp of the
\nair, not making any significant noise, bringing with it a ton of freshness engulfing within it all the foils and ruins
\nof the past.<\/p>\n

We should agree on not using fancy words from now on, as it makes me unnecessarily eerie towards diminishing emotions
\nand render speechless about how much coolness do we want from this world to not feel normal at all!<\/p>\n

(Are unnecessary se yaad aaya, we\u2019ve given this point way more attention than it deserves.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Again, who calls the shots at deserving<\/strong>? Time? Resources? God?<\/p>\n

(For the sake of nature: Do we really deserve to live or have we made our mother Earth more polluted than it deserves?)<\/p>\n

So, moving on with my final day of detox:<\/p>\n

Day 7: The Final Showdown<\/h3>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

You ready for the big revelation?<\/p>\n

Sorry to break your heart this way but there isn\u2019t any. I felt absolutely nothing just as I did on day one.<\/p>\n

To conclude it, I would just say that this wasn\u2019t something worth wasting your time upon!<\/p>\n

Again, what is your time\u2019s worth and where do you think it\u2019s wasted?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is it only money that decides what is worth and what is waste! Or the knowledge
\nthat makes you think that you are more mature than you already are! Or the experience that you\u2019re constantly gaining
\nbut guess what? There cannot be any experience of death.<\/p>\n

So what is the best way to live?<\/p>\n

I would just quote La La Land<\/strong> here:<\/p>\n

\u201cA bit of madness is the key
\nto give us new colors to see,
\nwho knows where it will lead us
\nand that\u2019s why they need us.
\nSo bring on the rebels,
\nthe ripples from pebbles,
\nthe painters and poets and plays.
\nAnd here\u2019s to the fools who dream,
\ncrazy as they may seem,
\nhere\u2019s to the hearts that break,
\nhere\u2019s to the mess we make!\u201d<\/em>
\nOr
\nIn the words of our very own Shah Rukh Khan<\/strong>,
\nHar ghadi badal rahi hai roop zindagi,
\nChhanv hai kabhi, kabhi hai dhoop zindegi,
\nHar pal yahan, jee bhar jiyo,
\nJo hai samaa, kal ho na ho!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Shah<\/p>\n

You wanna take this advice or go back to your previous ways, it solely depends on you!<\/p>\n

Spread as much stupidity as you want on social media, be as much intellectual as
\nyou want in your daily life, do things that your heart tells you to, break the chains or adapt to them, be the
\ntorchbearer of change or let the change die with you and feel significant for a day or two, turn the clock and go back
\nto your childhood to relive it again.<\/p>\n

It all happens inside the brain. Just do whatever you want with your life and get away from here. There\u2019s nothing left
\nin me anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":957,"template":"","class_list":["post-956","socialmedia","type-socialmedia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"yoast_head":"\nWar on Social Media: The Quieter Way of \u201cUnlearning\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Explore the war on social media and the quieter way of unlearning. 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