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Guardian writer on quitting Instagram for a private life
Original: The one change that worked: I deleted Instagram – and embraced the joys of a truly private life
A Guardian columnist describes deleting Instagram a year ago and finding life quieter and more fulfilling. She says she had grown obsessed with performing for an invisible online audience, and that abandoning the app restored meaning to her private, unshared moments. The piece is part of the paper's 'one change that worked' series on small lifestyle shifts.
Why now: Ongoing public debate about social media's mental health toll and digital detoxing keeps quitting stories resonant.
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- The one change that worked: I deleted Instagram – and embraced the joys of a truly private life · The Guardian
I’d become obsessed with appealing to my invisible audience. But since I ditched the app a year ago, my quieter moments have taken on brilliant new meaning
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