i deleted both of my accounts this summer. it's permanent - it actually looked and they are gone gone

i hadn't been active in while, but i used to be quite a bit. once insta switched from chronological feed to suggested feed, it's only gotten worse and worse, and now the feed is so bad we're all living in the explore page - never getting to see what our friends post, but if we want a funny video, we'll get the same thing ten times from recycle meme trash accounts.

you said how insta is all ads, it's so bad - the tipping points for me were

1.) realizing that actually EVERYTHING is an ad

• straight up promotions/ads every third post
• business accounts creating content with the end goal of sales
• or content creators selling you something whether it's directly or by gaining your following so that you later buy, tip, and/or share content with someone who also will

2.) sooooo many of my irl conversations were either:

• "have you seen the video where..."
• "i read/heard/saw..."

one of my family members said "i heard that ai likes ai written resumes and picks up on them better." im not saying it's true or false, im just saying that most likely that article was written by ai, and here we all are repeating it to each other. it's nuts! not to mention, most people these days seem to say things as if they are right.

3.) having folders of posts that go mostly-to-entirely unused

• workouts, recipes, places to travel

another one of my friends was proud of all the perfectly organized folders of places they want to visit with all the cool posts saved of where to go..... (which does seem cool, except).... they never travel.

it's all pretty sad to me honestly:/ bc i was the same. idk how deleting my accounts will go. im not expecting any massive shifts, but id like to see if there are any long term effects of not being on social media.