Instagram Addiction

i was addicted to instagram for about a month. it upended my life enough that i realized that i was living with something new-an undesirable habit. and once i realized this, it seemed like it would be wise to try to address it or at least think about it. easier said than done. i left instagram for about three to four months cold turkey-i left a video saying i was leaving, then uninstalled the app. there’s a few things to talk about here. first, as emily noted to me, this is why kids today can be so bitter about their relationships with their own phones. kids (which is anyone younger than 43) watch movies from the early 2000s with a kind of wistfulness because, wow, people lived normal, natural lives without phones. maybe it’s obvious to you, but when you’re 43, you completely grew up without phones. phones were an absolutely new thing that happened in the middle of your 43-year old’s life. i grew up quite familiar with the state of being absolutely bored to the gills. boredom was ju ... Read full article.