Day one of #abandoninstagram (posted simultaneously on instagram).
Today we woke up, I checked my phone, we had breakfast - eggs and beans on toast with coffee - and watched an episode of Arrested Development. Then we cleaned our teeth and got ready to leave, Rosa to campus, me to town. On the way I decided I would never post on Instagram again, an app I have so hated and chastised others for using through an entire era of my life and yet used for hours every day.
Social medias whole identity being obvious in a system so blatantly designed to keep attention for as long as possible, a perpetual user created magazine with infinite ad space sold back to users that spend time. So perpetually used to brag to people that if you actually cared about you'd see them to tell them about the better night you had than them last night.
And yet somehow I had convinced myself that the only reason I still used it was to promote myself, this became my employed justification. How else would people be exposed to my work?
Just so happens that this decision to drop Instagram as an image posting forum thing coincides with my choice to drop my smartphone in exchange for a stripped back "feature free" phone (ill still keep my macbook obviously) #fucksmartphones. I just hope that I might be able to stick to it, and maybe you'll join in, who knows. Or maybe you'll just see something from me from time to time on here.
Time to stop being happy to tell myself that I'm happy to compromise my morals and values, because an individual isn't able to make any meaningful change.
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