I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier
I deleted Instagram a few months ago and I’ve not missed it once. The people who post more take up most of my bandwidth and those people I sincerely do not care about but due to social etiquitte have to follow. As I grow older I find that I really don’t care about maintaining superficial relationships with acquaintances, many of whom I might not see ever.<p>Other negatives- I click on one picture of a scantily clad woman and  my entire search feed turns into softcore porn for a month.<p>Culture is too vain. Selfies, blatantly showing off, spending hours on touch up apps were looked down upon in the entire history of the internet until that Ellen selfie photo that got huge. Apple, Facebook, Google, the media all advertised and made it socially accepted that the vanity is good. That had it’s pros and cons but I feel like we are crossed over on the cons side too much.<p>The culture is too global. Everyone’s opinions&#x2F;posts&#x2F;comments all converge to the same dumbed down pop culture accepted norms&#x2F;memes. Everyone tries to be funny in the exact same socially accepted way and there is no originality.