I love the irony here. Going outside into “real life” to find pictures to post on a site that keeps people inside.
With Instagram they see their friends doing things and it’s a reminder that going outside and/or spending time with friends is fun. There’s a lot of pearl clutching about people getting jealous about other people’s vacation pictures, but on the whole the active Instagram users I know are much more social and likely to spend time outside the house than the gamers or Redditors. By a wide margin.
Not so much a stereotype as a reflection of the real people I know.
I think we used to see much more content from friends, I think the feed is now mostly content creators/ads/tiktokified, no?
That's just reflective of how the world has always worked. Most people are passive.
The point being made, I think, is that Instagram is a greater source of motivation to interact with the outside world than Reddit/Gaming is.
It sounds plausible enough to me but who knows?
Now it’s a meme-shorts first platform that constantly suggests content outside of your follows and non-chronologically. You can’t opt out of “suggested content” pictures or videos in your feed for more than 30 days at a time and there is no option to permanently opt out. It’s not possible to opt out of shorts (reels) suggestions in your feed. It’s not possible to opt out of meta “threads” suggestions in your feed. I just opened the app and 5 of the first 11 items in my feed were sponsored ads, and 1 of the 11 was suggested “threads”.