"Like My Pic on Insta"

Social media has changed our lives. Each platform has its own way of taking over our lives. Instagram, for example, has become a great way to show off how amazing our lives are. We post things that are “insta-worthy” and aesthetically pleasing and eye-catching. Instagram used to be fun when you would take a cute selfie with your friends and post it right to Instagram for your followers to see. However, now Instagram has become so overdone. You have to get the right angles, the right lighting, nice crisp and bright editing to amp up the picture to get likes. You have to make the picture what its not. People post the best travel pictures from their room with a view or a sunset, or a posed picture that a boyfriends took of his girlfriend guiding him along on their journey. Listen, I’m not hating on the platform, I love Instagram and use it a lot more these days since I have been traveling and going to some cute food places (because everyone loves some good food porn, am I right?) However, what’s happening behind the scenes of those photos? You see all the good and cute pictures people post, but maybe the room with a view was actually a picture taken at a window in the hallway, or the picture of the girlfriend guiding the boyfriend is just for looks and the two are actually fighting. All I’m saying is that Instagram is this endless circle of people wanting to post cute pictures for their friends to see what amazing things they’re doing or eating, then those friends are doing the same thing. Instagram is just filled with really cute, super edited pictures for likes. A fun life is about all the likes.