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How I Finally Cured Instagram Addiction by Deleting The App for Good

How I banished the addictive service from my life (harder than the brief title suggests)…

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Since receiving my first phone three years ago at 16 years of age, I’ve had a personal Instagram account.

I was late to the party in comparison to the majority of my peers, and after finally opening an account, I enjoyed being able to keep up with them digitally as well as in real life.

Or so I thought.

For the last year, however, I’ve become increasingly aware of my compulsive actions around using the app. This lead me to the belief that I had a behavioural addiction to Instagram.

This would make sense, considering the platform has been engineered for you to spend as much time on it as possible. Your attention is valuable to large social media companies, and they will harness it by any means necessary.

Enough was enough. It was time to quit.

This decision turned out to be the initiation of a year-long battle to regain control of my…

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Theo Stowell
Theo Stowell

Written by Theo Stowell

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