Instagram

Points of view

Share of the 38 posts that take a position

• Instagram is draining and performative50%

  These users see Instagram as tiring, superficial, or harmful because it encourages showing off, misleadingly positive identities, upsetting content, and exhausting behavior. Some respond by deleting the app or taking a break.

  • “Deleted my Instagram app and logged out and deleted my password cuz meh.”

    @PaintItBlues · Oct 4

  • “Instagram app should be renamed as show off”

    @vinaydeekonda · Oct 3

  • “Deleting instagram app for like two days after realizing it’s national boyfriends day”

    @ThatLockedDoor · Oct 3

• Instagram should improve access and reliability21%

  These users want Instagram to address practical problems, including messaging restrictions, account suspensions, accessibility features, translation, lag, loading failures, and other unwanted changes.

  • “I should update my instagram app”

    @officialmediaug · Oct 6

  • “Hey @Meta here’s a good use case for muse on the instagram app. Real time captions and cross language support”

    @premwise · Oct 3

  • “@Instagram @facebook @Meta My Instagram account @_just.existing00 was suspended for 180 days, and I believe this suspension may have been made in error. I have already submitted an appeal through the Instagram app, but I have not received a resolution.”

    @nasib7r · Oct 4

• Instagram shapes influencer and reality culture8%

  These users argue that Instagram and related platforms have helped make influencer culture and reality television more socially or professionally significant. Critics also say platform-friendly presentation can prioritize viral appearance over substance.

  • “There’s a direct correlation between influencer culture and reality tv being seen as a serious career. YouTube, Facebook , instagram and twitter helped create this new generation thinking”

    @globalinblack · Oct 6

  • “"I think what's challenging is that when you get into the Instagram-friendly pictures that are all over the place, you don't really know what it tastes like," says @dhmeyer of food influencer culture. "It just became a viral appearance of something. I love when food is real."”

    @FiringLineShow · Oct 6

• Instagram is useful for entertainment and connection5%

  These users value Instagram for entertaining videos, favorite accounts, social contact, and other forms of engagement, even when they acknowledge drawbacks such as environmental cost.

  • “My current favorite Instagram account is this kid Samuel Henderson from Florida who does impeccable imitations of bird calls.”

    @karatalaamalaka · Oct 8

  • “@ thuggpapi IG probably depleting a planets worth of water but man them videos is fire can’t lie”

    @Beaux_Lee · Oct 8

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