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I finally deactivated my Facebook and Instagram accounts today, and it's thrown into sharp relief how much of my use of them was just physical reflex. I've caught myself several times in a moment of boredom unthinkingly making the muscle movements to open a new tab and start typing "inst" in the address bar, without any conscious desire to actually see what was on Instagram.
@Connor Welcome!
@Connor this is what quitting reddit was like for me. really forced me to think about what I wanted to actually do on the internet
Same thing happened the last two times I quit Facebook (2013 and 2014, for a few weeks only each time), so the feeling isn't unfamiliar but remains embarrassing.