Visiobibliophobia or SMD?

I was wondering if there was a word that was used to qualify the fear of social media or the anxiety that comes with some persons in the context of being exposed online or on social media and I found the word Visiobibliophobia while the unusually addiction or attachment to social media is called social media disorder or in short SMD.

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Now here are two extremes. While some persons are running away from social media or are not keen on being exposed to social media, so other persons are addicted to it.

Whats your take on these two extremes? A little back story here. I visited my brother and we got talking about his girl friends. Now he has two. One doesn’t live with him in the state where he resides but one does. The reason they are two is because he is trying to compare and constraint between the two girls to see whom he would settle for because he was planning to get married soon, so he says.

Now he began to complain about the girl Friend that was staying with him in the same town and her attitude to social media and I said to myself, now that’s an SMD victim.

How do you deal with a girlfriend that sleeps and wakes up on tiktok. She wakes up in the morning by 7am and goes to tiktok. She stays there browsing though all the videos and for each ones that catches her fancy, she forwards it to him.

Most of the videos or pictures she forwards to him on tik-Tok are videos of social media couples who are doing couples hangouts, couples shoots or on vacations in different parts of the world with a written note under the video “this is what we are supposed to be doing”.

Funny enough, my brother is a struggling young man who is trying to establish himself financially and all the girlfriend does all day is to forward videos to him of how best they are to spend the little money he’s trying to gather.

The last time she came to the house, she watched tiktok all morning, he was the one that had to stand up from the bed and made breakfast for both of them, they ate while she continued with her tiktok.

He went to work and came back. The plates they used in eating the food he prepared in the morning was still in the kitchen sink and girlfriend is still on tiktok. He would call and message her on WhatsApp, no response cos my sister is still on tiktok.

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The only time she leaves tiktok is when she’s sleeping. What do you call that? SMD ofcourse. It felt like they removed her brain and put social media inside it.

There’s another lady in my apartment that’s always on her phone. Anywhere you see her, she’s on social media. She a student but is always busy scrolling away. One told me yesterday that she’s always on instagram and can finish 33gig of data in a day just watching instagram video. I just got tired when I heard that.

Social media is addictive. While am not a fan of social media, I am not addicted to it. I am of the opinion that we should be highly discreet to the use of social media and strife to create a balance as we indulge in it.

Don’t be visiobibliophobic and do not be a victim of Social media disorder. That’s my humble suggestion. I think a balance and moderation would go along way to handle this issue.

What’s your say? Are you visiobibliophobic or do you have SMD?

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