Let’s Talk About the ‘gram

If you’re expecting some feel-good bashing of the platform to feel better about not being a superstar on Insta, you may have fallen into its despicable ego-trap again.

I believe the hazards and toxic mechanics of Instagram and social media in general has been identified, wrung-out and pummelled enough for me to not solely harp on it in this post. Instead, I’d like to try and examine our collective mania with social media, in a hopefully objective manner.

Instagram recently announced it is removing the ‘likes’ count on its posts, though users are still able…