I deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts at the start of 2018. I thought this would be painful, given my inexplicable need to check updates on both platforms whenever I wasn't doing anything important. I expected withdrawal symptoms, too, because I had spent so much time on them, and was used to knowing exactly where my family and friends were and what they were up to.

The funny thing is, nothing happened. I deleted the apps, and promptly forgot about them. It's been almost a year now, and I haven't been tempted to reinstall either of them, create a new account, reach out to people I know, or wonder about which exotic destination they are holidaying in. In other words, I have gone back to living like a normal human being, back when we didn't have smartphones and could focus on our own lives instead of being obsessed with everyone else's.