Americans want to delete Instagram more than any other app

There are a batch of reasons wherefore you mightiness privation to delete a fashionable app from their telephone — and you're acold from alone.

Popular societal media apps Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat garnered the astir net searches from radical looking to delete those apps implicit a caller six-month period, according to an investigation of hunt trends from cybersecurity website VPNOverview.

During that period, determination were much than 900,000 searches for however to "delete" oregon "deactivate" Instagram, much than immoderate of the country's 30 astir fashionable apps by downloads, VPNOverview said successful its February report.

That was much than treble the fig of searches for deleting oregon deactivating Facebook, which VPNOverview said was the app with the 2nd astir searches successful its analysis, with implicit 385,000 searches implicit six months.

The study analyzed hunt measurement for presumption related to deleting oregon deactivating fashionable apps utilizing the website keywordtool.io and information from web analytics institution Similarweb. These 5 apps appeared astir often:

1. Instagram (900,120 searches)
2. Facebook (385,410)
3. Snapchat (217,400)
4. Twitter (92,490)
5. Telegram (24,819)

On the 1 hand, it stands to crushed that Instagram and Facebook — some of which are owned by Meta — would person the astir radical funny successful deleting them, due to the fact that they're already connected galore people's phones.

Instagram, for example, was the second-most downloaded app of 2022, with much than 548 cardinal planetary downloads — trailing lone TikTok's 672 million, according to the BusinessofApps. The app isn't successful information of disappearing immoderate clip soon.

But Meta's apical platforms saw user growth stagnate and engagement decline successful 2022. And successful caller years, polls person shown growing distrust of fashionable societal media platforms implicit issues similar disinformation, cyberbullying, phishing scams, privacy concerns and information mining.

Meta didn't instantly respond to CNBC Make It's petition for comment.

Some users are besides acrophobic astir the impact of societal media connected the intelligence health of children and teens. Meta's ain leaked interior studies person revealed the antagonistic effects that dense Instagram and Facebook usage tin person connected young users.

And, portion the bulk of teens contiguous are willing to instrumentality breaks from societal media, they're besides mostly divided connected whether they could springiness up societal media altogether. Last year, 54% of teens surveyed by the Pew Center said it would beryllium "hard" to springiness up societal media completely. Forty-six percent said it would beryllium "easy," including 20% who said it would beryllium "very easy."

In the aforesaid survey, 62% of teens surveyed said they usage Instagram. Only 32% said they usage Facebook.

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