When Showing Beat Sharing, it was Time to Delete Instagram 📸

Simon Pastor
5 min readJun 2, 2021

The We Generation or the Me Generation?

About 6 months ago, I deleted the Instagram app. There wasn’t a defining event that led to the deletion. Rather, I slowly came to realize that the app was having negative effects on me, namely: FOMO, egocentricity, and addiction.

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Simon Pastor

🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇸 @YaleMPP • Previousy @LSEGovernment, Institut Montaigne, CitizenLab, UN 🇺🇳