The one change that worked: I deleted Instagram – and embraced the joys of a truly private life
I self-righteously refused to download TikTok, declared Snapchat to be for “children”, and posted less regularly on Instagram than half of the people I…
The Guardian reports: I self-righteously refused to download TikTok, declared Snapchat to be for “children”, and posted less regularly on Instagram than half of the people I followed.
I’d become obsessed with appealing to my invisible audience. For a long time, I never considered myself a social media addict.
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