Only few people will understand this.

Your post contains solutions to 80℅ of all unhappiness in people's lives. Social media makes us me feel that only my life is dull. All these food delivery and quick commerce apps are designed to leak our pockets by using our greed and laziness. True love, which means a relationship built upon trust, commitment and future plans, is next to impossible in big cities where people believe on in hookups, flings and friends with benefits!
The best we can do is to stop allowing our smartphones and computers from controlling our lives, rather living entirely on our own terms. Peace comes when we stop comparing our life with others, reject uncontrolled consumerism and prioritise satisfaction with what we have over desire for what we don't!

I'm happy to say that, I've ticked all the above checkpoints 🙂, I am really happy

I think the problem isn’t with the apps. It’s how a person uses those apps. I utilize Zepto once a month for buying all my groceries(it’s a planned one, only groceries and not veggies or fruits) - Reason - I don’t have to visit the grocery store and carry that much weight or spend time doing the grocery shopping plus I get a good amount of discount on grocery compared to my local supermarket. For veggies and fruits, and other perishable items, we utilize going to the local vegetables & fruits shop and buy it fresh in the morning every 2-3 days.
We seldom buy clothes and other unnecessary wants from apps.

Zomato and Swiggy is installed, but we use it very less(maybe once or twice a month). We prefer cooking during the weekend, and have a cook(only for breakfast). We cook our lunch and dinner.

I am married(so the dating apps doesn’t apply). Met my wife through Shaadi.com. Did courtship of 3 years before we got married. It’s been 8 years since we got married.

Got laid off in 2023, and it was a blessing in disguise. I spent lot of time with my son. Helped me with mental health as well as physical health(he’s quite a runner).

My evenings are booked only for family.
Thankfully, my current startup doesn’t force me to work on weekends or unnecessary over-time. Probably because both founders are married with their own family lives and more than 2 decades of experience(giving them a good planning strategy and human experience expertise). It’s been almost a year working with them together, and it feels like an extended family. The founder had been there through our tough times when I lost my father in law(took a month break). No questions asked or no pestering and asking about work. Really relived. Huge salary cut for me, but I am happy with the mental peace which I have.

I do have to use social media but mostly for monitoring our pages and engagement.

Financial literacy is a must. And it comes only with experience. I remember spending a hell lot early in my career with credit card debts but by the age of 25, had got the financial knowledge(through credit card traps).

Thankfully during my early years in career, didn’t have those so called finfluencers. Had to do my own research which was tedious but was very very helpful for me to plan.

You know just yesterday I was out with my friends and saw him use Slice for KFC. I mean not exactly KFC but he took an instant loan infront of us of 10k rs. I (out of curiosity) wanted to see the rate of interest but it was not written on the app UI only the next payment amount and due date was mentioned. After scouting under the terms and conditions, I scrolled and found 32% rate of interest 💀💀💀

I have yesterday uninstalled Facebook and Instagram and more to go. I just saw your Post, more Apps on the way to deletion. I have started meditation in the morning to cope up with the changes.

Using this App changed my mind and I am more aggressive and rude and become short tempered in nature which is opposite to my original nature and behaviour, I was very late to realise this. Its never too late to start some good.

During the third year of btech I deleted all social media, didn't have any food apps or anything as I wanted to be hyper focused on my career. About 2 weeks in I realized I had so much time that I was wasting on these apps. I built full stack projects with a team, got an internship and grabbed 3 AWS certs. Due to this I got placed in a very good company in 2023. Those efforts are still helping me in my current job. Mom was right, it is that damn phone!

Very well written @WildProbation 🙂

I deleted my instagram in 2023 and Facebook way back in 2019 and I have never felt better.

Made me think hard. Thanks for writing this OP

I literally downloaded hinge 10 mins ago 😭