Internet Addiction By Young Daibiloloari

Did you know I once loved the library? I would stroll down on weekends, I once loved the evening play and chat with friends after a long day, for it helped my communication skills. Watching of the television was only on Sunday evenings under mother's restrictions/control. Do you remember the games as kids where the girls cook soup and the boys go to work? I once loved all these until the internet came, it crawled silently into my heart. It became my best friend, my every day meal, I got addicted and .... I would spend more time with my phone than books, more time playing computer games than with friends, the library was now old school for I would download books as pdf, mother couldn't restrict what I watch again, I was exposed. The effects on me outweighed the benefits.

My phone was my window to the internet, I would open everyday to view it's splendor, as second gives way to minutes, and days, and months and years I got addicted. As a child from a Christian home, soon I was connected to my phone but disconnected from God, connected to the device but disconnected from the Divine... The effects of my addiction outweighed the benefits.

Gradually it snatched away my sleep, I kept  having constant backaches, headaches, Yes, I knew these where symptoms of getting addicted to the internet..but no, I couldn't stop I felt I was enjoying myself... Couldn't stay a minute without visiting the internet.. each time I am not online, I find myself getting irritated.. upset..restless.. I tried my very best to stop... But all to no avail... It continued to take the best of me... Until the very day I was determined to stop.. I said to myself nobody else can make me stop except me... Yes.... I was determined cause I felt I wasted hours,seconds,minutes, days, months and years I would have used to develop myself, to surf the internet..It wasn't an easy one though.. I decided to identify  those addictive apps on my phone... Know the websites and apps I used...And blocked everything that made me addicted to the internet... Yeah!!! I know y'all would be surprised.... Now the idea was not to be shut off from the online world..The idea is simply not to be controlled by them, and to have a balanced life that includes other activities...

ABOUT THE WRITER 

Name: Young Daibiloloari

State code: OS/19b/1241

School: Niger Delta University

Department: History and Diplomacy

Phone NO:  08134843246

I am a gospel artist, makeup and gele artist.