How My Life Has Changed Since I Quit Social Media

I belong to the last generation who didn’t grow up with social media; in fact, it wasn’t until I was in middle school that social media began to take off. I joined Instagram in 2013, at the age of thirteen. At the time, it was an app to post low-resolution selfies with friends or silly pictures of your pets. No one really tried that hard, and that was what made it enjoyable; there wasn’t the pressure to present the “best version of your life,” to get the angle and lighting perfect, or to generat...