Instagram. If you don't know what Instagram is, you've been living under a rock. Up there with Facebook and Twitter, this app has made it's mark on social media with pictures. And everyone has an account. Your neighbor, your friends, your favorite actors and even your president. Yes, Obama has an account, I just googled that.
I have a love-hate relationship with this app. I refused to download it when it first came out even though my friends were starting to rave about it. I thought it was such a stupid idea. Like, why does anyone want to just post pictures of random stuff. Back when it began, it was mostly pictures of food, and what people were doing before Snapchat appeared. I finally broke and got myself an account. It's funny because I scroll down to the bottom of my Instagram now, and my pictures are so different. It's like the idea of what was cool then is totally different than what is cool now to post.
Why is Instagram a trap? Because everyone's obsessed with it. Yeah, our generation is obsessed with all social media, but seriously Instagram is the worst. On Facebook at least I find myself watching fascinating videos, or reading news articles, but you know what I do on Instagram? I shame myself because I don't have this girl's butt, that girl's hair, my makeup looks like a kid drew it on compared to that girl, and I'm pretty sure that girl is 15 with her perfect boobs, one upping me.
I used to wake up in the morning and immediately start scrolling through Instagram. I would like everyone's pictures in hopes that someone would come and like mine, or even follow me because every follower meant that I was that much more important right? If enough people follow me, it must mean that I'm worthy. It's just sad. Our eyes are glued to the screens of our smartphones. We obsess over the time of day to post our newest photos. I actually find myself getting more excited about taking a picture of where I am than actually enjoying being where I am.
No one seems to make the connection of how fake the idea of Instagram is. No one is going to post their worst moments. In fact, no one is going to even post their second to best moments. Everything that is posted and shared is meant to give the illusion that their life, their bodies, their friends, their significant others...are perfect. There's no such thing as perfection. Instagram is luring you in with these accounts of these beautiful people in the hopes that'll you'll believe it's real.
We've taken these amazing lives that we have been given just to base them on everyone else's opinion. Is our sole purpose now to just prove ourselves to the world via our carefully edited photos? We are trying to so hard to impress, impress, impress, instead of just enjoying the moment. Actually taking the time to appreciate what we are doing and who with.
I'm so sick of being a hater. I find myself going on and on about other girls like it's word vomit. I just can't stop obsessing over other people via Instagram. I don't want to sit here a second longer telling myself that she's prettier than me, or she's younger than me and already has a better job. There is always going to be someone that is better. Comparisons are killing me along with every other person out there who can't take their eyes off of Instagram. Delete it. Seriously, you don't have to get rid of it forever, but once you take a step back and realize how much your life improves without it, you won't be as deep in the trap as you once were.
