I quietly deleted the IG app from my phone back in August. I’d done this for stretches before but it kept getting longer and I liked seeing how long I could stay off. Eventually I forgot and it had been almost six months. I felt way less comparison grief and ambient anxiety but I also missed my friends and never knew when anything was happening.
I’ve been dabbling in looking at it a bit in the past few weeks, it’s definitely not perfect but it serves a practical purpose and when I feel that pull to scroll for no reason I delete again. I wish we had a better tool than this but alas!
I quietly deleted the IG app from my phone back in August. I’d done this for stretches before but it kept getting longer and I liked seeing how long I could stay off. Eventually I forgot and it had been almost six months. I felt way less comparison grief and ambient anxiety but I also missed my friends and never knew when anything was happening.
I’ve been dabbling in looking at it a bit in the past few weeks, it’s definitely not perfect but it serves a practical purpose and when I feel that pull to scroll for no reason I delete again. I wish we had a better tool than this but alas!