"Boredom due to lack of interest, anxiety to control everything and loneliness, despite the false appearance of happiness that is staged in the networks, generate an emotional disconnection that makes the individual does not find any sense to be connected", says psychologist Cabero. The teacher believes that "if people do not take an emotional advantage of something, it is increasingly difficult to get hooked to something that requires effort and that can generate a stress caused by the voracity of being visible and wanting to make a profit " The professional believes that "the desire to be, have and show generates anxiety, and that makes many people who do not have this point of view or goals are away from something that they think is harmful."
Enric Puig decided while writing his book to disconnect from all social networks and even his smartphone, and now he says he was not wrong: "I do not know if I'm happier, but I feel much more calm and focused, plus I take much better advantage time". For the professor, "social networks cause a lot of dispersion, and they make the superfluous matter more important and we stay with the headlines without deepening the information". Puig is clear that "we are clearly digital dependents of our devices, to the point that the tool has been transformed, in many cases, into a great addiction that controls us, which is precisely what the companies behind the technology sector want. " The expert is clear that "it can not be that we are one hundred percent available to anyone," so he recommends as a first step "eliminate notifications to regain control and decide when and how we want to access social networks. Between the white and the black, each one should be able to find the gray point that suits him best ".
The profile of the "divorced"
According to a survey conducted in France by the consultant Havas Media, most people who decided to disconnect from social networks were people between 25 and 49 years, high class, university and high digital skills. Enric Puig also includes the profile of the adolescent "who believes that the subversive character of today is, precisely, not to be part of these social networks." Puig believes, however, that "mainstream fashion continues to have profiles on the networks, although there are things that start to change"(Verway).
Also in public life there were cases of celebrities who decided to get rid of social networks, most of them after some incident with the millions of users who follow them. "When someone makes such a decision and makes it public, it opens our eyes, although celebrities have a much higher level of exposure than ours, and it is difficult for us to have the same motivation to leave them," says Cabero. For his part, Puig believes that "what happens to them does not stop being a reflection of what can happen to us, and I think that is positive for people to reflect on their daily use." For the professor in communication at the UOC, Ferran Lalueza, "disconnecting from social networks is a way of attracting attention, since they are a platform that generates visibility and visibility". For the teacher, the clearest case is that of the stars, where some decide to stop definitively and others simply take a break to come back later. "It is clear that there are different positions, but nothing suggests that social networks may have an expiration date."
When leaving Facebook is harder than quitting
Digital detoxification, or the decontaminated ones have as a common feature the need to separate their private from the public sphere, and the feeling that these platforms provide little. Cristina is 34 years old and two years ago she decided to eliminate her profiles on Facebook and Twitter: "I reached a point of dissatisfaction and emptiness that made me reflect on the why of my actions. Then I realized that I would be much happier recovering my privacy and stop being aware of what others were doing. " The young woman says that she now lives "much more relaxed" and that she does not regret her decision. Carlos, 42, also decided months ago to erase himself from Facebook: "I think it was a harder decision than quitting," he admits. About the reasons that led him to make his decision is also resounding: "I did not contribute anything and every time I lost more time in the lives of people in whom I had no interest. Now I only share what I want and with the people I want, and if I can be drinking coffee, much better. "
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