Ananya Panday Says She Prefers To 'Mute' People Instead Of Unfollowing Them

Ananya Panday has lately found the 'Mute' tool on Instagram, which allows her to pick what she wants to see.

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New Delhi: Ananya Panday has a terrific strategy for dealing with Instagram trolls. The Gehraiyaan actor recently spoke out about how she uses social media to keep her mental health in check.

As she recently revealed to a magazine, she has lately found the 'Mute' tool on Instagram, which allows her to pick what she wants to see and absorb in her life.She was referring to the internet fame that comes with the high price of being a target for a lot of people, which is generally the case with actors.

Due to the fact that what people see on the internet tends to feed their thoughts and minds, she has chosen to mute accounts on Instagram rather than banning or unfollowing them.

In an interview with Cosmopolitan, she said, “Honestly, because of my recent discovery of the Mute feature on Instagram, I choose what I want to see and absorb. So at the moment, my relationship with social media is pretty good, because I’ve learned how to navigate it. It does get overwhelming being on it."

She further explained, "We end up spending so much time on social media, for work or fun, without realising what we’re feeding and nourishing our minds with. I believe that we need to make a conscious choice and switch—it may work for you or it may not. For me, it definitely has. We need to choose what information we allow into our lives because we may think that it won’t affect us, but it could in a way that we may not even realise. And that could spill over into our relationships, or cause unnecessary negativity. So rather than blocking or unfollowing, I choose to Mute accounts for a certain period of time until I am ready to allow them back into my life." 

Meanwhile, Ananya is presently doing her next movie, titled 'Kho Gaye Hum Kahan' with Siddhant Chaturvedi and Adarsh Gourav.