Cutting Out Social Media Analysis

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When cutting out social media it’s a big step, especially when you seem to do it every day and it’s something you used too. My experience with cutting out social media, media, advertisements, or anything else said in this category. It was quite hard, because sometimes I tried so hard not to look at the advertisements, but the pretty lights and the music were the things that caught onto my attention especially with the different sound effects that go along with it. I spend a lot of my own time listening to music, and on social media and somehow getting caught by different advertisements. Especially the ones that tend to be on YouTube and on a bunch of clothing websites.

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