Posting pictures of our daily lives isn’t enough for our 21st-century social media selves. The Instagram users of the world have created ways and excuses to post even more pictures during the week, so each day is original and exciting.

Secretly, the majority of these days are an excuse to post old pictures of yourself and friends (you’ll see, it's not just Thursday), but the secret is covered up by alliteration and hashtags.

Man Crush Monday. I don’t know who came up with all these, but the crush days strike me as odd. However, along with the rest of the female population, I am definitely not going to complain about Ryan Gosling, Channing Tatum and a multitude of shirtless boys all over my homepage as I struggle through my Monday. I still haven’t quite decided if it’s cute when people post pictures of their boyfriends for #mcm, or if it's kinda weird and mainly serves to remind the rest of the world how painfully single they are. The only Man Crush Monday I’ve ever done was a photo of myself with the Thomas Jefferson statue on the lawn. I guess TJ is the only man ever deemed worthy to infiltrate my Instagram.

Transformation Tuesday. Basic white girls love this day, as it also involves a pic stitch just begging to be made. The key is to go out of your way to perfectly replicate a pose you struck in an obscure location when you were an innocent toddler in a time of Polaroid pictures and no filters. Place those pictures side-by-side so your world of followers can see how you evolved out of or, more commonly, into your awkward phase! It is also a way you can sneak in a throwback two days early, since Throwback Tuesday doesn’t sounds as nice.     

Woman Crush Wednesday. When girls post #wcw pictures, it's weird, and when guys post them, it's weirder. But Wednesday needed some kind of alliteration to entertain us throughout the week since #Waybackwednesday is not a thing. There is already a special day reserved for old pictures, and Wednesday is not it. 

Since Wednesday is also Hump Day, the acceptable picture of the past to post is a picture of a camel. If you’ve traveled to Israel or Egypt, or some other desert with camels, and taken the obligatory picture on a camel, feel free to throw some Lo-Fi and blurred edges on #humpday. 

Throwback Thursday. You made it to every Instagram users favorite day of the week! Now is the time to whip out the baby pictures. The time frame of a throwback ranges from yesterday to ultra sound pictures of you as a literal fetus (major brownie points if you have one of those). It’s a perfect time to relive you and your friends’ awkward stage and laugh at it. The more ridiculous the picture is of a mini-child version of yourself, the better.     

Friday and Saturday. These two days don’t have a particular distinction because they have fun of their own. Friday and Saturday are the days of the week when the magic happens in real life. News feeds are filled by themed parties, friends, sports events and other shenanigans, so you don’t need those filler picture days with more alliteration hashtags. But if it makes you happy, lets call it #fabulousfriday and #supersaturday.    

Selfie Sunday. It makes me question how society is surviving when taking, sending, and posting selfies is not only acceptable, but also encouraged. We even have a day set out for it. Yet again, these selfies can be old pictures. Since iPhones have a built-in camera for the sole purpose of taking selfies, people seem to have ample amounts of this styled picture to choose from.

We’re all guilty of being hashtag basic and giving in to the insta-shenanigans of our day. I, too, have posted throwbacks on days other than Thursday – sorry. Might as well jump on that bandwagon and enjoy the ride before civilization realizes how strange these posts are and it’s no longer socially acceptable.