Deleting facebook, instagram, and snapchat and all the dating apps was one of the best decisions of my life hands down. And I still got friends and I can still meet people, "social media" is a lie, the only thing the internet should be used for is sharing information and debate. The Internet used to be a place to watch weird fetish porn and discuss your interests with others from across the world, now all these corporations have come in and used that basic, narcissistic desire for attention to extract vast profits and fundamentally alter social life for their own benefit.
The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most
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> Who people think we are is who we are May be true for extroverts, but as an introvert I don't give a cent about what random people think about me (which also explains why I do not use Instagram in the first place).
Whatever personality trait you’re talking about is orthogonal to introversion/extroversion. There are many introverts who manage their social time specifically because they care about the impressions they make on others and find it effortful to manage them; and many extroverts who do the opposite specifically because they don’t think at all about such impressions.
Impression shaping doesn't define who you are, it's a completely artificial front, and it takes an effort exactly because impression has nothing in common with person's essence.
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#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not caring what people think doesn't mean he can't communicate with others. Introvert doesn't mean asocial.
If you actually don’t care you wouldn’t post because it wouldn’t occur to you to. Edit: I find that most people who scream “I don’t care what you think” generally mean “I’m not influenced by what you think”. Which is an important difference, and helps explain getting red in the face about someone else’s opinion about which one don’t care.
That's because delusion is ugly and thus invokes complaint, so yes sufficient ugliness has influence, but the influence of ugliness is invocation of complaint about ugliness, it doesn't define who you are.
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I saw a youtube short like this. It was a video demonstrating the "perfect" guy. It started reasonable, with him saying "oh can you check this on my phone? the passcode is XYZ" Yeah, I would have trusted my current-wife then-girlfriend with my phone passcode pretty early on, no big deal. She didn't feel the need to know it, but casually telling it to her so she could do something with it is probably a thing that happ…
> But it started to veer completely weird after that, about abandoning all his friends and stuff. It turned into a giant WTF for me. Yeah, this is exactly what I'm talking about. It's long-game triangulation, which is little more than domestic violence perpetrated by the other partner. But men are supposed to feel ashamed of themselves if they're not willing to just blindly go along with it. The irony is, they call t…
> It's long-game triangulation, which is little more than domestic violence perpetrated by the other partner.
No.
Domestic violence is domestic violence.
“Long game triangulation” is manipulative behaviour. It is not domestic violence.
Domestic violence is having your mother beat your skull with one of those maglite baton torches the police use.
Saying things that aren’t violence are violence is exactly the kind of awful behaviour others in this thread are complaining about.
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#265I wish I could delete my Instagram account. A bug with my account means the app stops functioning as soon as I sign into it, no matter whose phone I use or what country I’m in.
I signed up for Meta Verified on Facebook, hoping that their paid support feature would help me. They said that since it’s a technical issue, I have to report the problem through the app. I explained that my app stops functioning after I’ve logged in, and they said there’s nothing else they could do for me.
If anyone knows of a way I can get my account removed without needing to log in, please let me know.
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#266I wish I could delete my Instagram account. A bug with my account means the app stops functioning as soon as I sign into it, no matter whose phone I use or what country I’m in. I signed up for Meta Verified on Facebook, hoping that their paid support feature would help me. They said that since it’s a technical issue, I have to report the problem through the app. I explained that my app stops functioning after I’ve lo…
Can't you login in a browser? Option two: move to the EU. The option to delete your account is required by law. And if that is not possible, try vpn? No idea if that works.
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But it started to veer completely weird after that, about abandoning all his friends and stuff. It turned into a giant WTF for me. Yeah, this is exactly what I'm talking about. It's long-game triangulation, which is little more than domestic violence perpetrated by the other partner. But men are supposed to feel ashamed of themselves if they're not willing to just blindly go along with it. The irony is, they call t…
> It's long-game triangulation, which is little more than domestic violence perpetrated by the other partner. No. Domestic violence is domestic violence. “Long game triangulation” is manipulative behaviour. It is not domestic violence. Domestic violence is having your mother beat your skull with one of those maglite baton torches the police use. Saying things that aren’t violence are violence is exactly the kind of a…
Domestic violence is more than one thing, and it includes psychological abuse. Not all violence is physical.
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> Wow. I have problems with Instragram I remember that for a few months before my partner broke up with me, their IG feed was full of reels, posts, 'comedy', 'psychology tips', about people complaining about their partners. And also lots of Insta influencers posts giving relationship tips or encouraging people to break up for diverse reasons. While I'm aware my relationship wasn't perfect, the standards promoted by t…
The joy of exploitative recommendation algorithms. I had a discussion with my daughter about TikTok's Glamour Filter the other day and now my whole feed is full of glamour filter posts. This is so unhealthy (mentally).
At least on TikTok filters are explicitly marked as such.
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#269I know it's a meme but your life really does improve by deleting social media.
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#270I wish I could delete my Instagram account. A bug with my account means the app stops functioning as soon as I sign into it, no matter whose phone I use or what country I’m in. I signed up for Meta Verified on Facebook, hoping that their paid support feature would help me. They said that since it’s a technical issue, I have to report the problem through the app. I explained that my app stops functioning after I’ve lo…
Can't you login in a browser? Option two: move to the EU. The option to delete your account is required by law. And if that is not possible, try vpn? No idea if that works.
Thanks for the suggestions! Unfortunately, logging in with a browser gives me the message “confirm your info using the Instagram App to try to get back to your account”. Meta support assures me my account is in good standing, so I can only assume this is a bug.
I’ve unfortunately also tried VPN, as well as logging in on other people’s phones in different locations (including overseas).
I wish I didn’t have to move to Europe just to delete a social media account.