The social media influenced our lifestyle to a great extent. While it allows many user to showcase the creativity, it also allows users to generate some monetory gains. I have seen people gets rags to riches by posting content on differrnt social mmedia accounts. But what it brings on table for other users??
pebbles from an aquarium
With the advent of various social media like instagram, Facebook, tik-tok, YT Shorts etc, many people found them as a great way of entertainment. While these platforms started their operation with long videos streaming, but with the change of time, and viewers habits of running through videos they have introduced short videos concept. These short videos are of shorter length and does not take much time to scroll. Now every major social media platform, have their own seperate short video content streaming different videos. People find them entertaining and I am too not left apart.
an empty minds is devils workshop.
When I shifted back to village, I used to had lot of spare time. And I started to tangle myself in watching these short videos. These videos have all kind of content, there are funny videos, there are motiivational videos too, while some have good recipe content, and others have sexual wellness too and many others
entertaining contents. It is amazing to see how people easily squeeze their content to 30 sec and force people to watch them. Watching them is like an addiction as you never know how the times runs away. Once you start watching, it automatically make you to keep scrolling through the videos one after the another.
I fell into the trap too. I was looking for online jobs videos on #youtube. The #YouTube platform homescreen already flashes you with shorts videos contents. The autorun make the videos to stream without volume. The set up is such that it makes users to click on them. And once you click it, you will get into the trap where you will keep scrolling one after the another. You will find it hard to pull yourself back
YouTube screen grab
I started to get habitual, and there was a time that my phone runs only two things, one #hive (ecency / peakd) and other #ytshorts. Infact the later runs more. Thanks God that I am not in any other social media accounts. I left #Facebook way back in 2011 because of similar unproductive usage. Where watching and liking friends posts was too monotonous act. And never registered on #Instagram or other similar platform.
When you wake up,that's Morning. Better late than never
There was a time when these #shorts made me far away from #hive too, I was already getting away with my responsibility and family. I was spending lessor time with my Dad. But it did not took too long to get back to my rhythm.
The presence of good partner in life is always a blessing in disguise. My better half is not differrnt and she soon notices my habits of spending unproductive time on useless things. The best things about her is that she pinch you hard with her words that sometime make people feel ashamed and she did something similar to me as well. The pinch was enough to make me leaving the mobile for an entire day. And since then, I get over with video watching. And hardly every seen them, unless and untill, I am travelling. Such videos are good way to entertain when you are alone like time passing during my recent travelling.
my nephew cap on driver seat
Getting over the video watching habits allow me to focus more on useful things.
- I begin to get regilar on #Hive.
- I started focussing on my health,
- I had the most amazing and memorable time spent with my Dad,
- I utilised my time in learning photography.
- I learn video editting by my own.
.......and many things that makes life more exciting and meaningful.
The most important lesson learnt in life is that, to Indulge in things which are productive rather than useless things. Times one gone will never comes back so make every moment count. This is my take on Topic 3 of this week Weekend Engagment
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