I've not been as active in here over the past month as I made a conscious decision to go on "Instagram Detox". Here are my thoughts 💭
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💘 I spent actual quality time with my family. Staying over with my sisters @jessluvcats and @juz_jd, caring for my baby nieces, fussing over @mag_hila wedding with @txshxra and opening up more to my mother. Through family events, I got to reconnect with people I haven't seen in a while and even made new friends! Focusing more on building relationships made me go on Instagram a lot less.
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💘 Building our home with @shinemanson has definitely pushed Instagram to the backseat and has definitely made us closer than ever 🏠💕
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💘 I focused more on my surroundings and realising how beautiful my city really is. I get more inspiration from the little things than scrolling through Instagram.
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💘 Instagram is full of bullshit and fakes now with the same type of boring unoriginal content, cheesy commercial-like sponsored posts and people focusing more on "follower" count than value and trust. I'm sick of "influencers" visiting my profile only to study my stats, "get inspiration" *cough copy* from my feed and don't even have the decency to follow, like or acknowledge. We've become less human and its downright disgusting.
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💘 The recent updates, like/follow/comment blocks, accounts getting disabled on Instagram have made me realise how important it is to not put all your eggs in one basket and how blessed I am to have my blog. Therefore, I will only be selectively posting on Instagram from now and have been putting more effort into building the blog than something that may die in a few years to come.
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"Won't you lose followers since you're not active?", you ask. Nope, in fact, I think you'll lose more when you post meaningless fake crap daily than actual entertaining/valuable content. Besides, those who unfollowed you never cared about your posts anyways. I rather have 1000 supportive real friends than 10k bot followers 😜
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