Don't panic! I'm not suggesting we delete it forever. Sometimes, you just need a break. Whether you follow your friends, favorite celebrities, fitness groups, meme pages, or a combination of these, odds are you spend a lot of time looking at these posts and comments.

What's on your newsfeed affects how you see yourself and others.

Your friend went to Europe. Your favorite musician is on tour. Your favorite athlete got signed to a multi-million dollar contract. Your fitness page shows strength training you're unable to do. Your meme page shows offensive jokes. And you, well you didn't go to Europe, go on tour, receive millions, or work out, and you haven't made an offensive joke lately.

The worst thing you can do when scrolling through your feed is compare.

You might feel lame for not doing the things others that you follow do. You might feel inadequate that your feed isn't aesthetically pleasing or that you don't have thousands of followers. You have to remember that not everything is what it seems.

People fake their lives on social media all the time.

That same person who went to Europe lost a family member while they were away. That same musician on tour missed their child's kindergarten graduation. That same athlete ended up with an injury and lost out on a ton of money. That fitness page shows people who spent years hating their bodies before they could spend several years working on it. That meme page owner is probably a fourteen-year-old kid who doesn't fit in at school and the popularity of his or her meme page is the only thing driving their self-esteem.

By endlessly scrolling and comparing, you are spending more time watching other people's lives than building your own.

There is no need to compare because social media doesn't show the whole story. Every person you follow has a deeper story, a struggle, responsibilities, a life of their own to take care of. So do you. I challenge you to delete a social media app, just for a day and see how much more you can focus on your own life when you're not investing in the posts of others.