{"id":258336,"date":"2020-07-29T12:28:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=258336"},"modified":"2020-07-29T12:42:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:42:35","slug":"why-instagram-is-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/29\/why-instagram-is-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Instagram is Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A company which profits off people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s insecurity and need for external affirmation … isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t this evil? Truth be told to be addicted to cocaine seems like a better addiction than being addicted to social media and Instagram. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been awoken from an enlightened man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dream, checking Instagram comments to crowd source my self esteem\u00e2\u20ac\u009d- Kanye<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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My edict:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thou shalt not profit from exploiting the social insecurities of others. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t this what social media<\/a> is? FOMO (fear of missing out) marketing<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very dirty that they stole the Snapchat idea<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Instagram (owned by Facebook) is shameless. They straight up plagiarized the Snapchat stories idea. I typically don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really care for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153intellectual theft\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, but this was bad. No shame. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153evil<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To me, sneaky<\/a> is evil. Transparency<\/a> is not evil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Digital sharecropping<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is why sharecropping<\/a> was evil … land owners tricked (newly freed) slaves into Slavery 2.0. Uber-evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A company which profits off people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s insecurity and need for external affirmation … isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t this evil? Truth be told to be addicted to cocaine seems like a better addiction than being addicted to social \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Delete-Instagram.png?fit=1008%2C481&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258336"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258435,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258336\/revisions\/258435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}