Addiction in general mentions the determined behavior that results to negative effects. In many addictions, people feel forced to do some activities so frequently that they become a dangerous habit. Eventually this dreadful habit pokes its nose in the other works of life.

Social media has become an integral part in the life of the youths of 21^st century. Many people are suffering from this deadly disease called social media addiction. Social networking addiction is an incomplete statement used to cite someone who spends a lot of time in Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media — the intensity is such that it interferes with the other important activities of daily life. But, it’s not impossible to come out of this kind of addiction.

There are several ways to come out of this kind of addiction. Some of the ways are:

• Turn off Notifications: When you do not allow the notifications from different networking sites to disturb you, you may find it easier to focus on the important works of your day to day life and not get deviated from your focus. Notifications continuously makes you aware that what exactly is going on in social media. As a result you can aroused and excited to have a look in it thus creating an addiction for it.
• Limit Your Own Self: fix a timer in your wrist of your mobile phone to set a boundary on the time you are spending in your social media. The selection of the time limit relies on the extent of your addiction. As soon you reach your time limit be mentally strong and do not be allured to spend some more time in social media.
• Look for a New Hobby: When you try to move on from the social media, you may fine ample amount of free time with yourself. This is the time you can engage yourself in some kind of activity like playing a flute, singing, dancing, drawing, beat-boxing, reading books etc. you can also enhance your existing skills or try to learn some new.
• Pass more time with your closed ones:Rather than being updated with your family and friends virtually with the help of a screen, spend your time with them in real and make memories. Also, it is always not necessary to make your private life a pubic one by taking selfies and posting them in your social media accounts.
• Handle Social Media as a Treat: You may not purchase a coffee daily or do nail art on your nails every week, but you may gift yourself with all these when you feel you are worthy of it. So, think about social media in the same way: provide yourself with screen time only when you think you are rightfully worthy of it. If you handle social media in this way, then it might change your thoughts about social media.

Many people think it is an impossible job to come out of addictions of any sort but it isn’t. Getting rid of an addiction simply needs patience and control over your own self. In a literal sense, this world is your oyster so do not get snared in a virtual world. Get out from the world of social media and enjoy life. Life is not only about social media. It is a lot more than that.