I spend about 10 minutes a day on instagram and come away thinking how amazing the world is.
You have to curate your feed. Curate curate curate.
You have to curate your feed. Curate curate curate.
It's as if responding to someone that said that one can never find any positive stream on Instagram, when people actually complained about what Instagram, at its majority, and as is used by most, is.
Media broadly is what you make of it. Turn on the TV and flip to CNN, I'm sure you'll be depressed within a couple minutes. At some basic level the burden of information curation rests on you - the human. You can't keep blaming CNN, Instagram, Facebook, Buzzfeed, etc etc ad infinitum.
At some point you have to step back and take the responsibility of information intake into your own hands.
That's not to say you don't have a valid point. You absolutely do have a valid point. But it's not as useful of a point as you're suggesting imo.
So the counter-argument is that Instagram is not so depressing provided that one uses as little Instagram as possible ("curate, curate, curate")?
That kind of proves the parent's point (which wasn't that one can't possible ever find anything non-depressing/jealousy inducing on Instagram).
No, you didn't understand. The point is that you should follow things that make you feel good and cut off access to things that make you feel bad. Choose your experience. Curate your feed. That's supposed to be the whole point.
It's like the difference between enjoying a glass of fine wine and alcoholic abuse that causes cirrhosis.
On one hand, we've got to burst this bubble we're in and get out of the echo chamber.
But if you burst the bubble and get out, then you'll just be depressed looking at everything you hate.
Hmm.