I just vacationed without Instagram and wish I’d done it sooner

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority For about half of March, I was away from work on a family vacation. We took a cruise through Spain, Morocco, and Portugal. It was a lovely time, and I used my Google Pixel 9 Pro — easily one of the best camera phones you can currently buy — to document the whole trip. All the photos you see in this article come from the phone! Typically, many of the photos and videos I shot on this trip would have ended up on my Instagram profile. However, for reasons I won’t bother going into (although I’m sure most Americans reading this will know), I shut down all my Meta-owned accounts earlier this year. That made this cruise vacation the first time in the past decade that I’ve gone on a huge trip and haven’t posted about my experience on Instagram or even social media in general. But you know what? It surprisingly made the trip so much better. Sending media to specific people is much more satisfying C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Because I didn’t have I ... Read full article.