Honestly, I can’t believe I did. But I had to.
I was spending more than 4 hours of screen time a day on Instagram. Just uselessly scrolling my life away *tears*
I’m going to be completely honest here. After deactivating my Instagram account I've been in such a better headspace. I know why, too. The thing with Instagram was that besides it taking up so much of my time, it was negatively contributing to my mental health. There is so much content meant for consumption on Instagram. Opening up the app would mean that I’m allowing myself to be vulnerable to all the good and bad content on the platform. Do I really need it?
My Instagram account was a public, business account. I shared a lot of my writing on it and used it to promote my writing content and professional skills. But I also posted a lot of my personal life on there as well — filtered of course. I’d go on Instagram to see what everyone in my family and social circle was up to. And then after doing that, I’d get drifted in the Explore page. To justify my time on social media, I started following all these writing-related and marketing-related pages. But as you’d be able to guess — I was never on Instagram for professional growth. Instagram had always been the social media platform that I’d use “for fun.”
