Why Everyone You Know Is Oversharing on Instagram Stories
Aspiration once ruled the picture-based platform, but users are starting to treat the social media app more like Twitter and Facebook.
How Instagram Makes You Basic, Boring, and Completely Deranged
By now, most people are familiar with the bad tendencies Instagram encourages: self-absorption, stalking, pastel-pink blandness. Two recent works—a novel, “Sympathy,” and a film, “Ingrid Goes West”—take this as their subject.
Why Instagram Is the Worst Social Media for Mental Health
Instagram is the worst social media network for mental health and wellbeing, according to a recent survey of almost 1,500 teens and young adults. While the photo-based platform got points for self-expression and self-identity, it was also associated with high levels of anxiety, depression, bullying and FOMO, or the “fear of missing out.”
Young women on Instagram and self-esteem: ‘I absolutely feel insecure’
Essena O’Neill, an Australian teenager, quit Instagram and called it ‘contrived perfection’. The Guardian asked several young women about the pressure of the social media platform and how it affects their digital and personal lives
Instagram is a cultural pissing contest – so why does it still make us feel so bad?
“Kayla Itsines single-handedly makes me hate my life.”
Coming To Terms With Your Instacurities: Why Instagram Anxiety Is Ruining Social Media
Since when did getting likes determined just how liked you are? When did your self-esteem and self-worth become so contingent on your popularity on social media? How many times do you check your Instagram after you’ve posted it, longing to see the little heart on the bottom flash orange?
How Instagram Almost Ruined My Life
Insecurity, FOMO, and the other unfiltered harms that everyone’s favorite photo app can do to you.
Free Yourself From The Instagram Comparison Trap
YOU are NOT your Instagram photos, and your Instagram photos does NOT define YOU. No matter how few followers/likes you have, you are just as valuable + amazing as any other Instagrammer with millions of fans!
Aubrey Plaza on social media anxiety and Instagram influencers
“It’s hard to not compare yourself to other people when you’re being bombarded with these images that are so curated and so perfect”
This Is The Healthiest Way To Browse Instagram
Psychologists give their top five tips for using the app.