I’m so tired of friends telling me that being on instagram is important, you must grow your following and it’s just a part of today’s life, I don’t see or agree with this.
To me instagram is a waste of time, I don’t see any real benefits for me and so this week I turned it off. I can tell you its the best thing I’ve ever done and I honestly mean that it’s freedom.
Instagram is a prison, one that we admitted ourselves too, once you’re in its almost impossible to get out and all it does is bring you down. If a survey was to be done I’d bet my life on the fact that more than 75% of users would be depressed. You see when you start using it you want to reach a 100 followers and you’ll tell yourself that 100 followers will make you happy, but the truth is it doesn’t, when you reach that milestone all you’ll end up doing is setting yourself a new one, 500 followers will make me happy, but once again it won’t and what ends up happening is you get more and more drawn into this prison to the point where you’ll spend 80% of the day on your mobile device checking for new followers and likes. The trouble is as you get more and more followers you’ll notice your engagement starts to drop, ok but that’s not the worst of it, along with a drop in the engagement comes the negative comments and messages and most of us can’t cope with this, we tell ourselves we can cope with it, but we can’t this, in turn, drives our depression and I’ll promise you’ll never see it coming.
Its an evil ride that we can’t get off and why can’t we get off simple, pressure, this pressure comes from every direction we’re told you need it if you want people to see our work, but the truth is maybe less than 0.0000000000001% users on instagram will see our work.
Instagram tells us it’s important, but who is important too, 100% it’s not us, it’s only important to instagram as they need us to switch off and become drones, scroll, click, like, follow and don’t forget it’s important, what a load of bs.
Every day I hear about people around the world committing suicide, this comes from those people being bullied on social media, or they haven’t got enough followers, etc. I mean what the hell is wrong with the world, we need to wake up, social media isn’t important and if you’re feeling depressed delete the damn thing and don’t listen to the all the pressure, you only have to listen to one person, yourself which is what I did.
More and more people are starting to wake up to the truth, one day all this will be gone.
Since I turned instagram off I’ll admit to being a little lost, I mean I keep reaching for my phone, the need to check my likes, etc, it has been driving me nuts. I have to keep telling myself that I don’t have it anymore and that I’ve woken from the nightmare and I’m back in the real world.
People if you find yourselves feeling down or if you notice that the phone is always in your hand then I think it’s clear what you have to do, its time to disconnect from the Matrix, it’s not doing any of us any good being plugged in all the time and remember you have the power to turn it off.
Since writing this I’ve started to post on instagram, however, I don’t spend any time on there. I just post a photo every few days and that’s it.
