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cW · 4191 days ago · link · · parent · post: Instagram is even more depressing than Facebook. Here’s why.
So it's got all the appeal of US magazine, except the stars of the gossip really are us? Crowd-sourced scuttlebutt. I guess it really does have a grim kind of brilliance to it. I also guess that if you're going to focus on the dirt in "real life," it makes sense you'd do so in the virtual panopticon too. And I guess I can even see the appeal. But I guess I'd liken it to junk food, where the flavors are intense, the pleasure is short-lived, the after effects are miserable, and the long term nourishment value is sub-zero. You can't gorge on this stuff and love what is good in life for long.