Happy New Year! It’s now 2023, and with the new year comes the chance to start over fresh. Maybe it’s time for a new, social media-less you?It’s probably easy to say “goodbye” to Facebook. Most of your friends left long ago. However, Facebook is just one part of Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking giant, Meta. And you likely use one of its other platforms…Instagram.But deleting Instagram shouldn’t be too hard either. All those big problems Facebook has, well, Instagram’s got them too: Disinformation, fake followers, foreign influence campaigns, NFTs, scams, surveillance, just to name a few issues.If you want to stick to your New Year’s Resolution and log off social media for good, that means it’s time to say goodbye to your Instagram account, too. So, you ready? OK, here’s how to delete Instagram from your life forever.You can’t delete from Instagram appFirst things first: If you’re looking for a delete button somewhere in the menus on your Instagram mobile app (you know, the thing most people use to surf and post on Instagram), you can stop. You cannot delete your Instagram account via the mobile app. You can only delete your account by logging into Instagram from your desktop or mobile browser.Download your Instagram data firstBut before we get to deleting your account, you may want to download your data to your own personal computer hard drive first. To do that, log in to your account via the web browser and click “Settings” (the gears icon) on your profile page. Click the “Privacy & Security” option on the pop-up menu, then click on “Request Download” under Data Download.
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