8 Reasons Why I Hate Instagram

Instagram is my favourite social media, but I hate it at the same time. Many Instagram users have a love/hate relationship with it, here are the 8 reasons why I have quit Instagram so many times.... However, I keep crawling back every single time!

8: Food Porn

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Look at all the delicious food that we can't even touch or smell. This is such a tease and torture for all foodies, especially when I'm hungry but I only have a flat cold sandwich in my hand. Suddenly, after seeing the food porn my sandwich is now booking a one way ticket to the trash.

I don't hate people who post food on Instagram, I hate the fact that meals are now starting with camera shutter noises and how it has become a tradition to take pictures of the food before eating. Also, seems like the squares capture the best taste of the food more than our tongues. But honestly, it's not gonna give me a foodgasm just by looking at the instagram pages.

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No 7: Live Stories

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Everyone knows Instagram snatched the idea from Snapchat, which I think it's a big rip-off. Besides, there is nothing new about this function, same old stuff such as their dogs, selfies, gym time, products, etc.. I don't see the necessity of this new function, but I guess the best benefit of lives and stories is they attract more attentions from the followers since they appear on the top of the app.

No. 6: #Too much #

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Are we playing Scrabble here? I understand sometimes we just don't feel like saying anything with the picture we post, but do we really need all those hashtags to define the pictures we take? Some people are literally digging any word that can link to their pictures, or write a sentence and hashtag each words so they can get more likes or followers this way.

No. 5: #Ads & #Promotion

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Remember this #sugar bear hair they are holding? This hair vitamin got so popular after it got promoted by the Kardashian sisters. A lot of Instagrammers are promoting this product too. The words they use to describe this vitamin are #heaven, #sweet, #healthy, #amazing, #dreamy, #awsome, #can't live without etc..

It seems convincing when we see their gorgeous hair, but I doubt the results are from taking the pills. Instagram maybe is a good platform to sell or promote products, but I'm sure this is not the reason why half a million people are following them. Many followers choose to unfollow when there are too many promotions going on.

No. 4: Time Wasting

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#LOL. Wasting time, I mean how much time we spend on Instagram. I bet half of the Instagram users have the same feeling that we spend too much time browsing, editing and waiting for likes.

I do love the endless posts on Instagram. However, I hate how much time I waste on looking at nice pictures and leave other things behind, especially when I have work to do. It can be a huge distraction every single day to people who are lack of self-discipline aka me.

Top 3: Money Burner

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What am I talking about? Instagram doesn't burn my money you would think, because it is free. However, all the links that direct me to the shopping sites do, the makeup inspiration do, the stylish bloggers do, and of course the ads and promotions do. Don't you see all of these are happening on Instagram? Maybe some people will say nobody is forcing you to buy anything through instagram. But I say Instagram is a giant online market that every post can be a flyer that sends signals of shopping to users.

Top 2: Fakeness

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The No.1 reason I like Instagram is because the pictures are so fancy, everyone looks gorgeous on Instagram, but we all know that's not real. To some extent, Instagram is a utopia people leave part of their daily lives behind and just live in the delusional fame they create. Most users feel it's their obligation to make their post as fancy as possible on Instagram because everyone else does.

People who post their healthy Saturday brunch maybe eat deep fried chicken 4 times a week. People who post selfie with #nomakeup and #wakeuplikethis probably did make up for 1 hour beforehand to get this look. The person you are following always has perfect smile and passionate vibes maybe depressed 24/7.

Have you ever take 360 pictures from 360 different angles and choose the one that look like you the least? You know how fake Instagram pictures can be.

Top 1: Insecurity

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Even though Instagram users are aware of how fake Instagram pictures can be, we still tend to be affected emotionally. Some people feel insecure about how many likes they get. Some people get serious Fomo (fear of missing out) with Instagram. Some people get mood swings comparing themselves with others.

I constantly feel it is so not fair that everyone is good looking, has nice body, makes good money and so talent and cool all the time. Comparing myself to other people is something stupid but looking at their flawless posts really lower my self-esteem sometimes.

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If you have a love/hate relationship with Instagram too, I'll see you there.

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