If you have an iPhone I’m sure there’s been an instance where you had to hold down the volume and side button to reset it.
I allowed myself over the weekend to be distracted for about a full day’s worth on Instagram and throughly enjoyed it. As much as I hate the app in itself, when I do log on, I’m there for hours scrolling and laughing out loud at things my friends post. It’s endless and that’s why it’s dangerous. The amount of dopamine aka happy feelings that our brains release while engaging in social media is not healthy and getting addicted is so easy. We should only be getting that amount of heavy dopamine input from natural sources like exercise, being in nature, enjoying our friends and loved ones and even sex.
But I digress because I had a blast laughing at reposted memes and TikToks for a full day.
The most important thing I realized is that you can reset the content preferences of your explore page and that is a game changer because of the way the algorithm is set up, once you view one thing, your page has now set that as your main interest and will flood your explore page with that content. I realized this when I watched one bot fly larvae removal video and for like a month straight that’s all that showed up in my explore feed. I almost threw my phone out the window. Or even worst a big booty influencer might catch your attention; you click on their page and now it’s BBLs in thongs for the rest of your online existence. And then it activates your brain the same way porn does, you see it and then the shame that you’ve seen it sets in but you can’t stop seeing it. Yeah, Meta intentionally set up its app to work that way. Wicked
Anyway, sometimes you just need to change what you’re looking at and the settings in IG make that possible. Sometimes a reset in what you’re looking at is the fix you need to bring your goals and aspirations back into focus. To bring back your confidence and to normalize your own body image. You can do it in a few easy steps :
Go to
-the magnifying glass to view your explore page
-tap on a picture
-tap the ellipsis(3dots) at the top, next to the follow button
-tap manage content preferences
-scroll all the way down to ‘reset suggested content’
And voila,you’re now on the way to resetting what activates the pleasure center in your brain. You’re well on the way from BaddiesTV content to watching ocean videos and food reviews
Sometimes we just need a hard reset to bring us back into focus and to reality
Hope this helps
Introverted and anti-social 