i deleted instagram about 5 years ago, so i had almost forgotten what it feels like to have it in your life watching people around me use it now feels strange you end up checking the daily lives of people you haven’t seen in ten years, people you probably wouldn’t even stop to talk to if you crossed them on the street. random people from your past become permanent background characters in your mind. then add the fact that a huge part of instagram is effectively a dating product if you’re already in a long-term relationship, keeping that constant stream of attention, comparison and other people’s lives in your head has destroyed countless couples after being off it for years, the whole thing looks much more extreme from the outside. – at Barcelona, Spain