Whether it be Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, or Twitter, social media has become something that is quite possibly unavoidable. When you click that little app on your phone and start scrolling, there is no telling as to what could come next.

It is crazy to think that these little devices we use on the daily have the ability to stir up emotions within us. One second you're having a grand day and the next, you're angry and bitter and jealous that you weren't invited to so and so's party.

Or maybe it's the opposite and you're having a terrible day but you post a photo that gets 267 likes and somehow your confidence is slightly boosted. I don't know how you feel about social media but I know that just like everything else in life, this is something that brings up a lot of different emotions in our minds.

This realm of media is just that, a realm. It is its own world, its own bubble. We have created not one but many platforms to create accounts that show our lives the way we want them to be viewed. And while I myself am guilty of filtering the heck out of a photo, I also am guilty of being on the other end of someone else's photo comparing every ounce of myself to them.

For years, we complained about the way that magazines and billboards photoshopped women and men's bodies to look a certain way. But once we got the devices to do it on our own, we most definitely started doing just that at full throttle. But still, we scroll, compare, and hit "share" over and over and over again.

I don't know you. But, with these little platforms, we have access to pretty much any ounce of information. Within a couple minutes, you can find someone on Facebook, and boom, you know their birthday and the vacation they took with their family 6 and a half years ago. There really is no limit.

That is until we realize that maybe we need a break every now and then. Maybe that is the limit. I know I have hit a wall here and there when I notice I desperately need to "go off the grid" and delete all apps.

Here's the thing though, social media could be a good thing if we let it. We can use it to talk about important things in a civil manner. Or, social media could be a very awful thing. The choice is up to us.

Do what you need to do. If social media is something that you find tears you down more than educates you or brings you up, perhaps it is time to take a little break.

If you love the creativity behind snapping some photos or if you love having a place to share your voice and writing in a different way, make sure you are able to keep your platforms as an outlet rather than a little bubble of the perfection you are striving for in your life.

We all have some sort of opinion of social media and I may not know yours. But I do know that as a society, we do, at times, let technology turn into something far too negative.

My friends, please do not place your value in a number of followers or in a number of likes, these do not determine your true worth. Our lives don't need to be centered around accounts about ourselves when they could be centered around things that are far more important.

Chat with people in person, don't get frustrated if you get 2 likes on a photo, and live life in the real world not the realm we have created online.