I Took a Social Media Break in 2024 – Here’s What Happened

Detoxing from the never-ending scroll and how I feel towards Instagram and co. now.

Throughout March and much of April, I embarked on a social media break. I’d been contemplating one for a little while, for a multitude of reasons, and when I vocalised some of them to my boyfriend a few months ago, I realised that ‘now’ was better than ‘soon’. So, in March, I haphazardly put together an Instagram Reel, unceremoniously logged out of my main account and deleted Threads and X. The effect it had on me was almost instant.