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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only started using Instagram when my teens’ sports team posts schedule on Instagram. I only use it for one team. 
I have zero need to look at anything else on that platform.

So just don’t use it anymore, unless you have to. [/quote]

I deactivated Instagram and log back in when my kids sports/activity is busy. [b]I wish I could delete it entirely because I cannot control myself like the PP above.[/b] It annoys me that it is the official form of kid-related communication.[/quote]

This is the issue. And I'm very empathetic to this problem because I was like this for years -- I couldn't stop myself from getting sucked into it and looking at accounts I knew would make me feel bad about myself.

I have deleted it from my phone more times than I can count and overhauled my account (unfollowing or muting people and making my account private and removing people from my followers list to make my presence more private). It took me years to get to the point I'm at now where I truly don't go on it compulsively and when I do go on it I don't engage in behavior that will make me feel bad. I do not keep any social media on my phone at all.

I think social media is like alcohol and some people are just more predisposed to becoming addicted to it and struggling with it. That's how I feel -- like it just affects me in a different way to how it affects other people and I have trouble with it in a way others don't. It's very hard though because as others have said sometimes you aren't given a ton of choice. Instagram is how my kid's teachers and school communicate a lot of stuff going on at school and also one of her activities uses instagram to inform parents of opportunities that it would be really sad for my kid to miss out on. I also have a couple family members who I am basically only connected to via Instagram. But I guess this is kind of like alcohol too -- so many social events revolve around alcohol.

If there were twelve step meetings for social media addiction I would go.[/quote]

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