Yeah, I refuse to use it or sign up for it. It's worse than Facebook, which has pretty much broken several generations' brains, neurologically speaking. Youtube is probably almost as bad, the way it's designed to keep feeding you certain kinds of videos.
I don't even want to use Instagram because I've consulted on advertising campaigns and know way too much about how it's set up to be as addicting and also as much of an epistemological circle as possible.
I still have instagram, but that's it. But I turn notifications off on that so I really don't check in or know what's going on with it unless my brother tells me he posted a new little clip of my niece and nephew and then I go and check. But the addiction people have, I read recently about how the mental psyche was affected by the "likes count" being gone, but in reality, the likes count was only visible to the person that posted it or when they clicked it, so it's like this constant need for affirmation to valid their lives that people struggle with.
That's kind of sad, really.
I know people my age that are just flat out addicted to checking on their facebook, snap, insta, and twitter accounts because of "notifications" being on or they subscribed to someone or something. My gf goes on her FB account and scrolls endlessly for like hours at times and I just sit there and mock her saying "scroll scroll scroll, you addicted wanker" and then walk away to her scrolling.
I hated bullies in school, but when you went home, you could leave those assholes there, now, people that truly don't want to check out of social media, can't escape them, they have a choice, but they've become so addicted to those applications that they can't turn off and in not being able to do so, they've left themselves exposed to that sort of thing.
Again, it's quite sad. I know when I have kids, I want to really discuss the open dialogue of what they see and hear and how to process it, you can't control that sort of thing, just explain it and hope they understand and do the right thing based off of it.
