How to delete your Instagram account (and back up your photos)

[harlan4096]

Getting rid of social networks is somewhat trendy now — ironically, sometimes it’s trending on social networks, as with #DeleteFacebook. Instagram is no exception. People may have very different reasons to delete their accounts, but the general idea of leaving the second biggest social network is quite popular nowadays.

Perhaps, speaking of irony, you found this post on social media as well.

My reason for dumping Instagram is a popular one: Scrolling through a feed of pictures of other people’s tasty food and beautiful vacation spots makes my life seem depressingly drab by comparison. After 5 minutes on Instagram, I feel like my life is boring (it’s not), so I have decided to leave the social media platform.

In this post, I’ll explain how to back up your Instagram profile and then temporarily disable it or leave the social network for good, permanently deleting your profile.

Full reading: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/how-to-de...ram/25025/

[dhruv2193]

Thanks for posting the article. Did not know instagram had this.

[browneylad]

Yeah its technically slightly different to other social media like twitter. In case of twitter, you can delete all your old tweets but keep the archive for you & still can keep using the acc as new from the day. Basically a small refresh to clean out old huge amounts of tweet(via an app).