Should I Delete Instagram?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m obsessed with dogs, so my feed is mostly cute dog videos and silly animals of penguins slipping on ice and seals sticking out their tongues.

Your feed is based on what you look at and who you follow, so you could try and follow more wholesome pages and then the few people you care to follow.

Or take a 30 day break and see how you feel.

Instagram is the only social media I use, my account is for my dog and I only follow other pets, and have a thirty minute per day limit. Works for me.

Wut?

Instagram is the only social media I use. I have an account for my dog, and only follow other pets. I have a time limit of thirty minutes per day.

Understand now?

[Anonymous]

You spend 30 mins a day looking at pet's Instagram. This would make me delete Instagram 💯

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m obsessed with dogs, so my feed is mostly cute dog videos and silly animals of penguins slipping on ice and seals sticking out their tongues.

Your feed is based on what you look at and who you follow, so you could try and follow more wholesome pages and then the few people you care to follow.

Or take a 30 day break and see how you feel.

+1

This, above. Unfollow braggy neighbors, "my life is soooo great!" parents, etc. There's a way to indicate "don't show me more of this type of post" when the algorithm spits up a random influencer. Seek out accounts of actual interest to you. I follow accounts for a couple of my hobbies, travel (not travel influencers but actual tour guides and history accounts), and a couple of TV shows I enjoy. IG is great if you engage with it by dumping follows you find irksome and tweaking settings a bit so random materialistic influencer crap eventually all falls away. Seek accounts with content you actually like and want, and more of the same will start appearing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You spend 30 mins a day looking at pet's Instagram. This would make me delete Instagram 💯

Great. Everyone should use Instagram or not use it as they please.

[Anonymous]

Instagram is the only social media platform I use. If you are feeling negative about it then you probably do need to quit. As an adult you should also realize that not everything on the internet is true or real!
I have used IG to meet people and make friends all over the place that have turned into real life friends. We have meet ups at least once a year. I find it to be a great place to find people with similar interests. I also love it for content specific to me (like gardening, simple house renovations, decorating, etc). I use it to promote classes my friends and I teach. It can be a time waster if you let it but it can also be a great tool.
Use it or not but having such negative feelings about anything seems concerning to me and there may be a deeper issue..

[Anonymous]

The only social media besides LinkedIn which I hate but professionally need is Pinterest. I have less than zero interest in the rest incl X, FB, Instagram, Tic Tock, et all. I assume though if you are on one of these you are on all. I don't buy into any of this. Texting even to me is sad that we can't even pick up the phone to talk anymore so often but I get it. Once you start your in. I never started so I guess it's not a loss I feel. I think it'll be hard for you but like any addiction it depends what you want.

[Anonymous]

Do you have Facebook also? I find that Facebook makes me feel inferior to others way more than Instagram does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Instagram is the only social media platform I use. If you are feeling negative about it then you probably do need to quit. As an adult you should also realize that not everything on the internet is true or real!
I have used IG to meet people and make friends all over the place that have turned into real life friends. We have meet ups at least once a year. I find it to be a great place to find people with similar interests. I also love it for content specific to me (like gardening, simple house renovations, decorating, etc). I use it to promote classes my friends and I teach. It can be a time waster if you let it but it can also be a great tool.
Use it or not but having such negative feelings about anything seems concerning to me and there may be a deeper issue..

How are you using Instagram to meet people?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a time limit and don’t know my password. Works like a charm.

I’ve done time limits but never thought about not knowing the password!!! Maybe I’ll have my husband set it lol

[Anonymous]

I know an influencer from here so I like to see what she’s doing.

[Anonymous]

I keep my feed positive and informative. I rarely post (think once, maybe twice this year), but I would never delete it because sending posts and memes to DH and my boys is my love language. 😂💚

[Anonymous]

I use it for work and have found it very helpful for advancing my career.

Instagram is the new reality television, everyone is selling something and crafting a narrative arc. Remember that engagement is what everyone is after--it is SO SO difficult to build an audience--so the angrier/more emotional you get, the more they got you.

Try to approach Instagram from the perspective of "these are entertaining fictional stories starring real people designed to sell me products" and enjoy it for what it is/for what you can get out of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For anyone out there that deleted Instagram, did you find yourself feeling better about yourself and your overall life?

Like so many others, I joined instagram way back in 2014 when it was a fairly basic photo sharing platform. Since then, it's gotten worse and worse, and it's at the point now that I find nothing about it positive or inspiring. It seems to be nothing but people showing a small snapshots of events, but curating it to appear is if their lives are perfect. Vacations, new cars, home renovations, this list goes on. I recently read that it's the most toxic social media platform, and I'm really seeing why.

Yes! I started using instagram in 2016 when a boyfriend commented that I needed to get it. I got off it pretty completely in 2023 and have zero regrets. I post maybe twice a year and I look at pictures with the same frequency. Same with Facebook. I have a great life - three beautiful kids, nice house in an expensive area, great job, supportive and successful spouse, etc but I was always comparing myself to everyone and realized that it was unhealthy and toxic. I would randomly get on and spend 30 minutes mindlessly scrolling and at the end I felt depressed. It was like a bad drug. Just delete it from your phone and log yourself out from your personal computer. I rarely think about it now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a time limit and don’t know my password. Works like a charm.

I’ve done time limits but never thought about not knowing the password!!! Maybe I’ll have my husband set it lol

Read Atomic Habits. The author's assistant gives him his social media passwords for the weekend, then she changes them on Monday morning to allow him to get work done.