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Caro's avatar

I recently started using instagram again, and the amount of anxiety I felt everytime I posted, was just so overwhelming, the idea of people watching me, always freaked me out, but despite that I still was uploading stories and posts, just so people could see me, because I thought I should be doing what everyone else does, to sort of “fit in”, but reading this has given me clarity about the reality behind instagram, so thank you

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lise's avatar

i'm unfortunately not ready to delete instagram at the moment as im going back to uni soon and the only way to actually maintain friendships seems to be to connect through social media. i have, however, put screen time locks on it so I really have to be mindful with how i use it. and if i need to message someone, i'll use it on my laptop- i find that using instagram on Mac is super annoying, and i never end up doomscrolling on it.

on top of the screen time locks, i recently removed about 500 people that I had on my account and made it private; all people from high school, or from my city that were mutual friends that i realised i really didn't care about/want seeing any part of my life.

it's definitely helped me to stop feeling the need to perform and share every bit of my life, and at the moment my mindset is much clearer. my social life is lacking due to me living back at home and away from my friends atm, but i don't find myself being overly sad about spending time with my own thoughts and disconnecting from everything else.

this has encouraged me to keep going as well. lovely writing! :D <3

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