For years, I played a game of virtual cat and mouse. I would post a photo, wait for ‘likes’, look to see what friends were doing, then, finding myself too distracted, my head spinning, delete the app. A few weeks later I would re-download it.
I knew that social media took me away from the physical world and I knew that, with a few clicks, it could drag me into its orbit, where I would remain for countless minutes, sometimes hours, before coming up for air. But I couldn’t resist it. The colours, the lights, the social updates, the endless scrolling – it was all too tempting, even as it muddied my brain.
We live in an age of distraction, spearheaded by the digital revolution. In 2022, over half the world’s population (some 3.96 billion people) used social media, a number predicted to reach 4.41 billion by 2025. The average person spends just under two-and-a-half hours on social media
