Leaving Social Media As Travel Bloggers

Hi, today we tried to delete Instagram when we saw that our profile was showing stuff that wasn’t ours. It was stuff we’d been tagged in. Which we have no control over.

It’s mostly spam.

We tried to delete Insta, and immediately got locked out.

Please unsubscribe from all of our social media profiles. It’s not us anymore. And if you’re thinking of quitting them – do it. Go on. If I can, you can.

Stick around for emails, please, pretty please, we need to stick together more than ever.

This Travel Blogger Has Quit Social Media

Update 19/11/25 – I did it. I’ve deleted all of my Facebook groups, pages and personal profile. It feels great!

Social Media has been important for travel bloggers and all bloggers for a very long time. I don’t want to do it any more, so I quit.

It will be interesting to see what happens.

My private group “Living Differently” has gone, as have all my FB business pages. The page for this site had over 10K followers, but honestly, that means nothing.

Facebook has barely driven traffic for years. Mostly because I can’t be bothered and don’t want to spend hours creating content.

Chef, my husband, has deleted Facebook entirely and his Instagram. I’m struggling because they have me so hooked in. The kids never got sucked into that world, thankfully. Most kids don’t use Facebook. It’s us, Gen X and Millennials.

Just know that our Instagram is no longer under my control, and there’s nothing I can do.

I’ve deleted all of our content on YouTube and multiple Facebook groups and pages. I haven’t opened Twitter in years.

When I first started blogging Facebook was the only platform that existed; one by one, the many social media platforms became essential for my industry.

We became slaves to them, generating more and more complex content to win the algorithm wars.

And then they were all owned by the same people. People with too much money.

I never fully committed. I was a token player, my superpower was always this website.

Being on them is an important part of SEO, so we’re led to believe. Well, if that’s the case, I’m not playing that game any more. Email only.

We’re going back to how things were as we become more and more off-grid. I like it. It gives me more time to enjoy my life, and I do, very much.

So stay on the email list, there will be more travel content. For our homestead – style life today, you’ll need to subscribe to our new site, it’s here.

You can always email me.

Take care out there.

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