To think Instagram breeds narcissism

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I mean its ridiculous how self indulgent people have become. We all have value in our own way but some people I follow who do not have a platform or many followers are now doing things like their podcasts, 'promoting' products like fave cream with no ad just copying other people it's all a bit cringey and egocentric imo. Even when 'influencers' are like 'I'm so sorry guys I haven't updated my stories I promise I'll be posting about x, y, z mundane thing I did this wkend asap' I'm just like really?!

Don't get me started on the pictures of someone walking down the road looking into the distance x5 of the same slighty amended pic

I know ppl will say you 'don't like it get off social media' but that's the point, I'm a bit addicted and habitually check it like most people and feel narcissistic in some of the ways I use it and I just feel like it's taken some of the authentic charm out of life - this slef imposed expectation to document everything for validation. I just worry about the young people now as they go into adulthood living this way with their life experiences and personalities being recorded every step of and moulded this way... Perhaps it'll be fine just different to how we grew up maybe. Thoughts?

I don’t think that in itself it’s in any way ‘narcissistic’. I started to use Instagram as a way of showing regular photos of my DS to my parents and ILs, all of whom lived in another country. Now that we live close by, I use it mostly for following arts organisations, museums etc. When I post, which is seldom, it’s pictures of random things. The last one three were a heron, a celeriac I was about to make into soup, and the Pet Shop Boys in concert.

Thread from this morning 😄

I agree. I did chuckle the other day, at a home improvement account that was mocking people who presume they have a lot of money. The house was enormous, definitely not within the realms of most people to buy - yet the comments were they had average jobs, and people just had to work hard if they wanted the same. If only it were that easy.

Also, I feel SM is very damaging and creating insecurities, as well as never being able to escape bullying for example. My gen grew up with MSN messenger and the beginning of the Internet, and I always chose being out. Most kids (and adults) are glued to devices nowadays

I do look back sometimes wistfully at the olden days when there was such a thing as being vain/ seeming vain and it was something people tried not to be

I realised that I was doing likes "wrong" the other day. That is was supposed to like all of my friend's posts, and therefore they would like mine back, instead of, you know, just tapping like on a few that I specifically... Liked?

I definitely think a few people have got spectacularly up themselves on SM. My friend fwd'd our WhatsApp group some wedding pictures of someone we went to school with, saying that "they weren't public yet but that she knew we could be trusted not to share" in the manner of someone who had exclusive pictures of Tom Cruise marrying the Queen in private. Not just some stagey photos of someone I don't remember being at school with who my Facebook friends also don't know exist.

I don't really care what indivual adults do but it does concern me when adults drag young children in and use them as well like a prop.
Or use them as the photographer!

I feel like for how many people here are apparently too good for Instagram, we certainly have a lot of threads about Instagram...
Like "I don't read Daily Mail, but here is a link to Daily Mail article I read" thing....

Stop pretending to be better 😂

Re social media. Just follow what and who you ACTUALLY like and it becomes a beautiful place

@springsally i know right?! I don't want to run anyone down but the videos of ppl posing in mirror pouting and swishing hair around.. We would of been absolutely ridiculed in our day 😂 But maybe we should of been celebrated? Who knows? I just don't think that level of pre occupation is healthy

My Instagram is just my dogs. I have a job, kids, DH you wouldn’t know any of that from my Instagram.

Although, my dogs do have it pretty good so I suppose in a lot of ways I am showing other people interested in dogs, how lucky mine are 🤣🤣

@MassiveSalad22 interesting!! I'm not alone. Do you think enough of us will eventually feel this way and it will die out like MySpace I wonder??

@thecatsthecats this made me laugh!! 😂

Ahhhhhh! Influencers, meh don’t care. People blaming them for their insecurities, give me the absolute rage.

Deal with your own shit, you’ll be happier.

@AgentJohnson they don't make me feel insecure. At all. I'm talking about the behaviour we have inhabited as a society

But you’re choosing to engage with the type of behaviour you’re complaining about. I use Instagram, and never see any of what you’re describing, because of the people and organisations I follow. I get that it exists, but it’s entirely avoidable.

Why do you follow people if you don't like their content? Instagram is absolutely full of self obsessed dickheads but followers and likes are what fuel it. Others see them living this perfect life and convince themselves they can be an influencer, hence the posts from those "starting out". Its all quite vapid really, which is why I steer clear of it and just follow cute puppies and comedians.

Yes there are a lot like that on there

I personally follow Friends, History, True Crime, Local interest kind of Instagrammers

I do look back sometimes wistfully at the olden days when there was such a thing as being vain/ seeming vain and it was something people tried not to be

tbf in real life this is all still a thing