Getting My Instagram Back!!

After about 6 months, I’ve decided to reactivate my instagram account. For the sake of my mental health and journey to figure myself out, I completely get rid of the app for a few months. Since it’s been a while I’ve decided to ease into the process and make sure I set some guidelines upon re-entry. Here are a couple things I plan to do differently!

💤 Keep my app notifications off: after 4 months of being completely off my Instagram, I decided to slowly start using it again via my spam account, I’ve decided that I keep my goal of not being overcome by my social media usage when I keep my notifications off. The only time I’m alerted of something is when I’m in the app, giving me the control without feeling inclined to open it constantly.

🛜 Use it to connect… but on my own terms!: Using Lemon8 has showed me that communicating through social channels is actually something I enjoy more than I thought! While this may be the case, I can still understand the fact that I’ve had personal contact with most of my following and would like to continue to do so.

🧠 Prioritize my mental health: I realized with my spam that I don’t need to get “post anxiety” or feel sick thinking about what I post lol. I’ll post what I want within the guidelines emotion free, and the day I start to get nervous about posting is the day I’ll deactivate again.

🧘🏾‍♀️ Stay true to me outside of media: I have a list of permanent things I found out about myself while deactivated that I would like to stay true to. It’s important to realize that we have dimensions to us as people and explore all of them in our own way. I had the privilege to discover a dimension to who I am when I’m not using Instagram, Snapchat, or any personally social platform and I’ll remind myself each day to never take it for granted!

In this day and age I’ve realized social media is more than what I made it out to be. It’s a news source (in an unofficial way lol), a search engine, and in very few cases educational. While it has its vices, it also has its perks and I not only recognize that big appreciate it. I’m glad I got to be under a rock for a while but now I’m glad to be back and better to the space!

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