This is not a particularly insightful observation, and I’m sure most of you are aware of this, but my god has that place ever good downhill, even compared to how it was before…
I only still have an account because some people (women, always women) seem to view it as an “acceptable” communication method for acquaintances. And if you meet one and you say “I don’t use Instagram” then that’s an immediate conversation-ended, lol. And admittedly it can be useful sometimes, for that purpose. Or to see what a select set of people are doing.
But man, for the majority of people I know, on there, whether I went to school with them, or Uni, or met them in some other way, it’s all become the same vacuous bullshit.
Girls LARPing the millionaire lifestyle despite being largely unemployed. Guys posing shirtless on treadmills or showing how “fit” both they and their partner are. All manner of pretentious, vacuous relationship bullshit.
Sure, Facebook is, and has always been, fucking terrible, but at least people are sometimes funny on there.
I can only think of one person on my Insta who ever posts anything particularly “amusing”, and I don’t even know her personally. The rest of it is utter, utter braggadocio shit.
/endrant
A huge subset of the world is fake. My observation, those that have nice things or a nice life keep it to themselves. Those that go to great lengths to present their greatness really don't actually have it. Even ones that do it's the ones whose things are fleeting from being full of debt, or being a thug or something that will end up shot or ODed.
A metaphor I'm always telling my cousin, who's a teenager and grown up in the world of social media too much, and also fits the dirty mind of someone that age. It's just a dick measurement contest, quit measuring. Basically, quit comparing yourself to liars on the internet. They are lying. The real alpha exudes confidence and uses that confidence to claim the woman while the betas are distracted in their petty fights for dominance.
It isn't new. Even before social media, even before the Internet, people wanted to compare and compete with one another by lying about their social status. It's the reason for the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances in the 90s and the phrase "keeping up with the Jones's". It's just now on a macro scale, you're competing worldwide and everyone thinks they are a celebrity.
Also of note - I know a lot of women from non-Anglo countries, yet almost every one of them only bothers captioning things in English, and from what they post, you really wouldn’t know they were French, or German, or Swedish, or whatever. You would just assume they were a rich Anglo expat.
Which is rather sad, given that I know that they aren’t even fluent, but they’re just trying to “game the algorithm” for so-called “maximum engagement”…
Crazy to see these same girls, who a few years ago were fairly normal chicks, become wannabe “influencers” who only post bikini/boat/party pics…
What a world.
I thought Instagram was for ethots that were pretty enough to get enough simps without going the only fans route or was I mistaken?
Its for those ethots to funnel you to their OF too
I thought those were the ones NOT pretty enough to get the simps needed that they didn't need to get fucked on film?
I dunno.
Just that insta is full of thots with onlyfans too, with the onlyfans ranging from slightly more revealing than their insta up to getting fucked on film
It's definitely used by a fair number of ethots, but that only encompasses a small portion of its actual user-base.
Generally, it seems like it's ended up as the "younger hipper" Facebook. While Facebook's more or less reserved for "boomers" now.
I mean, yeah, it is that now, you’re right. Though unfortunately some people still use it as a “communication tool”, of sorts.
But yes, that.
I do remember when it still used to be more “hobby posts”, and the like. Those were the days…
Unfortunately that has been the way for MOST of social media.
Twitter has only recently improved partly because Elon took over, mostly because of their patented bitch slapping service known as community notes.
I can say the same for Twitch. Was for gamers, nerds, etc to share their hobbies and skills. But once it became easy enough for women, it devolved into yet another eThot bridge to Onlyfans.
Women are best at one thing in particular.
Almost all the ethots have Onlyfans now.
There's a cottage industry in LA for influencers. Studios are building sets of mansions, private planes, exotic locations, etc. So that influencers can stop in and pretend to be at those locations. The internet is fake.
And even scarier is politicians are getting these influencers to push political messaging.
Tis a strange and silly place. It certainly has some interesting features, and I "generally" like the UI design, but it has a lot of weird oddities and quirks too.
As for how people seem to use it, I get what you're referring to. On first glance a lot of it looks rather showy and pretentious, and in many cases that's almost all it is for the individual using it.
On the other hand, I think some are using it that way to both present for themselves, and to others, that they're out enjoying a life filled with adventures. Which to some might seem a bit shallow and artificial, but very well might be at least a little meaningful, in the right context. And as with all things, some sorts of people just have to take it an inch further.
Slightly off-topic though, but am I the only one that finds it disjointing with how modern social media and messaging platforms show that messages have been read by the recipient? It's not something I've been used to with almost any form of online communication before.
Not going to judge your overarching life or situation but please at least be aware of the fact you associate in earnest with people who won't converse with you if you don't have an Instagram account.
Instagram is for women to share pics of their travels, bodies, food, cats, and other expressions of NPD. There's zero reason for a man to use it unless he's a professional photographer or trying to win one of those contests where you have to post on Instagram.
Instagram is mostly used by whores & pimps and aspiring whores & pimps. That's about it.
Instagram is a form of digital pathology. It encourages you to be jealous of nonexistent things.
I use it to see what my favorite stand-up comics have going on. It also has outfits selling psilocybin mushrooms and ketamine nationwide, apparently without any interference from the law.
There are some amusing things like "the dark side of nature," industrial accidents, people doing stupid shit on purpose, a lot of stuff along the lines of "Fail Army."
I agree that, as an outlet for narcissistic horseshit, it has no rival, except maybe TikTok.
They banned me because...a finger twitch. There's no human moderating that, it's total bullshit, don't even bother appealing. AND, when I tried to make another account, I couldn't. Nobody could. zuck is a paper billionaire.
You continue to have the coldest takes in the world most of the time. Yeah, social media is shit, we all know.
Its still better than chicom mind control that is TikToc. Instagram will improve once Tikoc is formerly banned and all its content is brought under an American umbrella. Patience.
Is your translator breaking? The only reason people in power hate TikTok so much is because it hosts anti-israel content that they have no control over.
TikTok is run by the chinese, it hosts pro Hamas propaganda and poisons the mind of the American youth. This has been a problem for a while and we can finally control it.