Why a Blog

I'm gonna be pretty straight-forward with it, I have a terrible relationship with Instagram. I just think it's bad, for your life, and for your head, the algorithm is just fucking mean. I even wrote an essay about it back in 2017, it's pretty bad though, but I was distracted so I didn't have the time and will to write something better, Ana if you ever read this, I'm sorry, I was in love.

I think as a society we are addicted to dopamine because of social media and it's starting to be really, really bad for us to the point our attention span is ridiculously short and we can't really retain information the way we used to, there's so much of it being fed to us through our news feeds that we just don't really care anymore, content is being made and thrown away by the second and it can't be healthy, having to synthesize content to the point of seconds of consumption is not normal, what happened to magazine articles and in-depth reviews and when did everything become Instagram stories?

I also don't like the way we treat content on Instagram, the way everybody wants to be an expert in digital marketing these days, I think it's exhausting, creatively empty, the way content has to be served and devoured in less than 5 seconds, otherwise, it becomes boring is just unsustainable and cruel, especially when talking about normal people with normal jobs, who are not models or work in advertising. And it's just not fun anymore, it used to be, I think, but I don't really remember it being as fun as Tumblr or Reddit because Instagram doesn't create a sense of community at least from my point of view. But it's not about pictures anymore, or connecting to your friends and people around the world, it's all about money, "influence" and ads.

I know people don't do that anymore but I really miss those days of coming home from school, turning on my laptop and checking Keiko Lynn's blog, or The Beauty Department, to see if there was anything new, maybe a complete review of Too Faced's new palette, or an outfit of the day. I miss keeping up with bloggers because it's so different from following influencers. Most of the time I can barely remember the @s of influencers, yet I can remember so many names and URLs from 10 years ago.

And everybody was so different because the algorithm didn't select the best images to show, so everybody was living their own truth and creating their own image, and now I keep seeing the same images and the same aesthetics and the same feed organization and messages and concepts over and over again, it bores me, it angers me because I know it could be better and I know it used to be better.

So I am trying something new that's actually quite old, I hope you like it and I hope you come over to talk to me sometimes.