[uvw]

I never got addicted to social media. I have Facebook, twitter, Instagram, reddit, HN, digg etc etc, but I rarely if ever use it. Although I do read reddit and HN regularly, I never felt a desire to delete it in order to curb the usage. Haven't posted anything on Facebook in two years, on Instagram in almost a year, on Twitter in 4 years.

[kirillzubovsky]

I use Twitter a fair bit to DM with people that I find interesting, on Twitter, but lately it's become too much of a firehose of opinions, rarely backed up by data or even sound logic. Now I try to use it only once a day, or even a few days. So far, so good.

Instagram on the other hand, that got out of control quickly. I found myself browsing through the feed and liking a lot of content, only to eventually realize that what I really wanted to do was to BE in places that I was liking; spending time on Instagram certainly wasn't going to get me there faster. That was the point where I deleted it.

Suspending the account, deleting the app... none of that has worked for me with Insta, there was always some pull to get back into it. Once I deleted the account, some number of months ago, I haven't had the need to even think of it.