I am deleting instagram, for good.
When I was eating my dinner today, I have decided to do a horrible thing, opening a devil app called Instagram. If you are using it, you might as well know what the hell goes in that app, toxic misinformation, A LOT of politics stuff, gymbros, feminists, anti feminists, yada yada yada. And being the multilingual person I am, I deal with two times of this stuff, Turkey, and USA. It is a real deal breaker for me and I want it gone, like now.
I am not angry because some ignorant crazy-ass person who is a below-average thinker exists, because I don't need an app to acknowledge they indeed exist, they always existed to start with, and I am not stupid, I know this fact. Anyhow, in one of my recent posts, that you can see here, I have talked about how I hate social media and it’s disadvantages for our society. I am starting to hate social media more and more. But my reason of deleting Instagram is way different.
In my everyday life, I usually scroll through reels at least 45 minutes, probably more. Not only this is a tremendous amount of time just going to the trash bin, because realistically speaking no reel could give me great information that I would like to learn, or want to know of, only in mere exceptions, in specific times, maybe they can but this is a small amount that I would be okay to lose.
Besides that, it makes me stressed more than I should. Again, I am a great person, but frankly I have a lot going on with my life, and I cannot bear with a lot of unnecessary stress right now about fire starting in Antarctica or about Uruguay's retired prime minister's sons opinions about onions, for example.
I recently discovered that Instagram's comment showing algorithm is changed, and now it makes you see the content you would most likely to engage with. Now the big problem is, I and many other people tend to engage more with content that rages me, or outright wrong. So, even if I see a great reel I like, when I check the comments, my god, I see truly cruel, god forbidden, out of touch and miserable, really hateful people. "I want children" and there is hate in the comments, "I don't want children" and there is comments of how that person will die alone at age 10 with 120 cats living in some basement in Afghanistan.
Although it is funny, it always makes you engage with content in such a way that is actually harming you so bad. In my personal opinion, I think Meta (or whoever responsible for the algorithm) knows this, and they do not care a little bit. Again, that is expected. Thank you so much, corporate America.
So I have decided to give my middle finger to social media apps that cause me to crash because of their algorithm. Again, I am okay with informing and arguing with people time-to-time, if it is not being a thing I do all the fucking time. So, I am starting with Instagram first.
Before, I have deleted Instagram for some time routinely, maybe for 1 weeks or who the heck knows, 3 month, to do a detox or some kind of thing. But this time, there is no turning back, I fear. But, social media is an addiction, and also I have to entertain myself quickly sometimes, again, I know this is a bad coping behaviour or whatever them folks' call it in psychology, but for god's sake, this is like the last thing I care about right now.
So, me being the switcher I am (they call me "the distro hopper white bunny" -if you get this reference, go see a doctor, that is not normal, I know this because I am not normal- and that has a reason), I am looking for some apps that I can hop into. The first option is TikTok, and I love it, I mean, I never used the western TikTok, but I used 抖音(Douyin) which is in my opinion should be really close, and the only thing should be changing would be people who has the access to my data, and I fine all of them so I don't care.
Yes, they talk about topics mentioned above but content there is informative and actually factual, and the comments are not listed in a way that makes me want to bang my head against a wall and go jump into an ocean.
This is not my usual blog post style, because this is not a blog but instead a public rant. So there is no formal closing or headings or styling or whatever. I also made some changes to my blog's style, but I am not going to talk about them since I am angry right now and who the fuck actually cares about the style frfr. Anyway, see ya' next time!