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Just as one goes on a fast or a body cleanse you owe it to yourselves to detox your mind, it will not be easy but easy never yielded lasting results.

Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person__ life must remain private for the preservation of one__ sanity is almost frivolous.

Our parents are the coolest parents ever. No other generation went on from writing letters to their own parents to sending snapchats to their own kids.

There seems to be a direct correlation between the spike in suicides by young people and the increase in cyberbullying amongst young people.

The first few days felt quite surreal for gone was that filtered world of perfect angles made up of peoples_ best moments and selves. Gone was the wormhole that one jumped into at the sign of any awkward silence or pause in conversation.

We are imperfect creatures created with egotistical defects, insecurities and an incomprehensible desire for perfection and the excessive use of social media feeds the raging fires within, most of the time adding salt to wounds we never knew existed and at times creating new ones.

Millennials (aka Generation Y) are great at social media (Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter,Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Snapchat, Pinterest, YouTube, Vimeo, and Periscope) but lack time tested social skills ( patience, humility, active listening, respect for parents, teachers, elderly)