{"id":264497,"date":"2020-08-13T04:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=264497"},"modified":"2020-08-13T05:46:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T12:46:06","slug":"delete-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/13\/delete-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Delete Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Instagram \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the worst thing you can do for your self esteem, focus, or creativity. The best \u00e2\u20ac\u0153via negativa\u00e2\u20ac\u009d approach \u00e2\u20ac\u201d just delete it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Why Instagram is bad <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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It rewires your brain and body in strange ways. For example, when I get a like or a new follower, my body sends a hormonal cascade of serotonin to my legs and to my brain. It feels good, like a junkie taking a hit. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m certain social media and external social media affirmation and likes might be WORSE for you than even crack cocaine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instagram used to be good <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I am convinced the OG founders of Instagram (Kevin Systrom<\/a>) and Mike Kreiger<\/a> had the best of intentions and were good people. But once Facebook bought them out, things changed for the (far) worse. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instagram \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the worst thing you can do for your self esteem, focus, or creativity. The best \u00e2\u20ac\u0153via negativa\u00e2\u20ac\u009d approach \u00e2\u20ac\u201d just delete it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Delete-Instagram.png?fit=1008%2C481&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264497"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264510,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264497\/revisions\/264510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}