Coaching practices for How to Ask a Friend to Remove Not Post Photos of Me on Social Media

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• There are certain accounts I follow that leave me feeling small and behind every single time their posts show up, and yet I keep scrolling past them
• There are a handful of accounts I can name that leave me feeling small every single time, and I keep following them anyway
• It’s the endless passive scrolling through other people’s lives that leaves me hollow and envious
• In the moment their life looks effortlessly perfect and mine looks like a mess by comparison
• I pull out my phone to grab one photo at a dinner or a kid’s recital, and the next thing I know I’ve drifted into messages while the moment I wanted to capture is happening right in front of me without me.

Practices that may help

1. Conduct a quarterly unfollow audit
   Every three months, unfollow or mute any account that consistently produces comparison, envy, or resentment.
   The 2-Hour Social Media Cap
2. Curate your feed to reduce highly idealized and celebrity accounts
   Unfollow or mute accounts whose posts consistently leave you feeling worse about yourself.
   Social Comparison Online: What the Research Actually Shows
3. Replace passive scrolling with active, intentional social media use
   Use social media to create, connect, and respond — not to scroll.
   The 2-Hour Social Media Cap
4. Practice deliberate curation awareness — remind yourself of what you are not seeing
   When you notice comparison, recall explicitly that you are seeing a highlight reel, not a life.
   Social Comparison Online: What the Research Actually Shows
5. Use a dedicated camera for photography instead of a phone
   A point-and-shoot camera keeps photography intentional and keeps the phone out of social environments.
   Single-Purpose Devices
6. Execute a full 30-day break from optional technologies
   Remove all optional technologies for exactly 30 days — not a "digital diet" but a complete break to reset your relationship with them.
   The Digital Declutter, Made Practical
7. Map and limit your comparison triggers
   Identify the specific contexts that reliably trigger upward comparison and reduce your exposure to them deliberately.
   The Comparison Trap
8. Build one social-media-free day per week into the cap framework
   A weekly no-social-media day resets the baseline and breaks the compulsive checking rhythm.
   The 2-Hour Social Media Cap
9. Distinguish passive from active social media use
   Scrolling and watching (passive) consistently harms wellbeing more than direct messaging and commenting (active).
   Social Comparison Online: What the Research Actually Shows
10. Restrict social media to scheduled daily access windows
    Limit social media to one or two daily slots rather than allowing it to run as a background tab.
    Notification Batching: Taking Back Control of Your Attention

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