Does Instagram make you feel bad? Okay, well, log off then. We were put on this Earth to Goof Off and Have Fun, and it is well within your power to just ignore shit you don’t like. If you want to care about Shit That Is Important go do it in person.
For instance, follow fewer accounts, or at least use the Favorites feature to concentrate on the ones most valuable to you. When you go to ig, switch your feed to Following or Favorites so all you see is what you want, in normal chronological order, instead of ads and promoted posts that never end. Turn off the like count for your posts, too Social media now is set up to benefit the app companies. The apps prioritize engagement, not enjoyment. You have to work around that, unfortunately. I follow friends/family members, bands I like, and some people in Gaza. I don’t see any reels or suggested posts or anything else Meta wants to force on us. I run out of posts to look at in maybe ten minutes. I won’t discourage anyone from deleting ig, but it is possible to make it useful and enjoyable (at least for now).
Dreams make my imagination easier to grasp and understand. They can reduce so many complicated feelings and ideas to a single image or symbol. And the atmosphere of them feels like my essence, which is always something I want to capture creatively
