Social media deleters under 25 years old, what was the main reason you deleted?
82 upvotes | April 3, 2020 | by pilot333
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I’ve been Instagram and Snapchat-less for about 3 months. Never had
FB. I didn’t really have a reason for my deletion other than how
heavily it was encouraged by some in TRP so I deactivated everything
to try it.

Last week I went on Instagram.com to login to my business’s Insta
which automatically reactivated my personal and when I tried to
deactivate it, it said to wait 7 days. Ok.

With IG I later realized I fell into the pitfalls of validation like a
woman would. I’d post a shirtless pic and scroll through all 500
people who liked the picture and see what hotties gave me that crumb
of validation to get my ego through the week. Comments too -
dissecting every female comment at 5827437 angles. It’s so pathetic.
Snapchat - I just realized it was the orbiters version of a phone
number.

Over the 3 months I realized I was going against the grain. People ask
where you went, why you don’t have it. A few thought I was being
bullied. It was weird. Which makes me question if those preaching to
delete have any idea wtf they’re talking about. So I think I might
just leave it up and stay off it. If I don’t have the app and I’m
not scrolling/liking/posting, but rather just have an inactive
presence there it’s probably enough to enjoy benefits and to avoid
the costs. Messages will go unanswered but if someone searches my
name, they’ll see a private profile with a douchebag shirtless
profile pic and a few thousand followers with half I follow back. No
bio. Nothing there to harm me - typical timeless college kid profile.

This seems to be the most reasonable course of action to deal with my
faults. Full deletion creates more complications than it fixed.
Interested to hear the reasons why you deleted - assuming they’re
deeper than the typical “it’s a waste of time” etc

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