Blog #6

 The rise of Instagram is unlike anything we have ever seen before.  In just one day Instagram went up to number 1 on the photography category on the app store in the United States.  Why is that?  Well I'll tell you why.  First of all, Instagram very user friendly.  The interface of instagram is very easy to navigate, interactive, and pleasing to the eye.  It's a very simple thing but a good way to get people to download an app.  The most important thing though is that Instagram fulfills human desire.  Instagram caters to human's desires to get attention.  The features that Instagram has like how easy it is to upload and how convenient it is to receive likes and have others comment on your posts makes it appealing to people.  

Now there are some people out there that don't want instagram because of how much it caters to peoples desire for attention.  Some people are just completely against Instagram due to the fact that people are just always posting the highlights of their lives and are just seeking validation at all times.  Instagram can be a very toxic place.  When people are constantly seeing other people posting about having a good time and being happy it can really put someone down.  The reality of it is that a lot of those people that are posting on instagram that seem super happy aren't actually as happy as they seem and they are actually quite sad people but need to present themselves as happy to the outside world.  People also get hooked on Instagram and spend way too much of their

time on their phones.