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Ugh!! Insta is grossssss π it's ads or old classmates from HS. So many posted their "influencer" new years eve stories, about their mlm "success" (pfft), getting married, having babies, filtered videos and pictures of baby feet and food and A E S T H E T I C artsy things.
It just feels all so fake to me, idk. Maybe I'm just a loser stoner still finding my way, but I'd rather be this than them. I can't imagine going to cool places and posting about it on a platform like that where people like, know my real name and it's all super filtered. I dont understand the appeal, who is the performance for? Idk. I'm just out of touch I think.
I only use insta for cats and some fan accounts of my favourite bands.
Here here!
The finer things in life!
Lol that's fair, if I cared about SM then perhaps I would bother to to do a mass unfollow and refollow, teaching the algorithm that I want cats. But I don't think I care enough haha I guess it's just occured to me I like getting the memes from mates because it means they saw it and thought it would make me laugh. I appreciate that I think lol.
Iβm the same, Iβve kind of gone off platforms where everyone is low key competing/maintaining an image/comparing themselves to unrealistic standards and anybody could find you. Itβs healthy I think
It's weird, and like posting their newborn or toddlers on there too in like a weird grey-beige aesthetic like their child is some corporate jargon that marketing it's trying to peddle to the call centre monkeys. What happened to primary colours and fun cartoony wallpapers in nurseries. I get maybe the whole not assuming the gender of a baby is a thing at play, but the beige-grey shit is just so.... Boring. Like they're not even excited about having a kid or something.
Thanks for listening to my ~~TedTalk~~ irrelevant opinion as a childfree enby π
I got off it for that reason. I absolutely cannot stand when people take photos so they can post them on social media, and then curate their profiles (PROBABLY) so they can get validation from others. I have a friend that curates her photos to be colour-coordinated or something, but I don't see the point of any of it at all. It just screams low self-esteem and fake to me.
I wonder if it's because they want to share things with a larger circle? Maybe it helps them feel connected to the world?
Yesss same! Some of them had like this theme going on on their profile where all their pics made a bigger pic, or were posted in 3s. And for what? For who? For the millions of bots that plague insta and twitter and FB and whatever?
Maybe it does help them feel connected, but like, they have partners or husbands and go on campings trips or whatever, it's weird they still need validation from old HS classmates, strangers, and bots.
I'm probably just getting old and shitty ππ
Nah, you're not getting old and shitty, you're leaving the matrix :D
Getting off insta was great for my mental health.