New technology has affected us in different ways, the positive ones are multiple, but if you ask for my personal opinion, I will only talk about the negative ones.

Can you tell me, when you hear the word addiction what comes to your mind first?

For me, The first thing that comes to my mind is INSTAGRAM.

I first signed up to Instagram in 2015, at first I used it temporary basis, posting here and there, but soon after I began posting I noticed my followers were going faster and that was the start of my story, my ADDICTION story...

Online, I was so different. I was someone who was confident, I was someone who received attention and I was someone who others were curious about.

In real life, I was at home, on my own, unwell and isolated. I became obsessed with the site. It got to the point where I’d be online from 12 pm – 2 am, r.

Instagram turned me into someone who though was insecure in real life because on the internet, I felt free to say and do what I wanted. To talk to who I wanted and ultimately to be who I wanted.

My attractiveness was noted by the number of likes I received on a photo, this meant I’d often spend time taking photos and editing them just to receive as many as possible likes and comments.

As time went on, it became easier to be online than it was to deal with the real world so I started to lose friends easily.

I look back and wonder why I spent so much time trying to be this person I really wasn’t to all of these people I didn’t even know, I was feeling the need to escape a life I felt miserable in, and a body that made me feel insecure.

After a year on Instagram, I decided to get rid of it. I worked out how to be the person I wanted to be in the real world, it was my chance to make new friends and try to fix my old relationships, it was a very hard task for me because my addiction was killing me.

This part of my life showed me how easy it is to fake someone you’re not, how important friendships are but the most important thing is how technology may turn us into persons that we are not and how it can affect our behavior to become people who are less confident and more isolated.

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