![]() ![]() Watching mundane 10-second videos of their kids, their baking, and their house projects has been a ballast of normalcy in a tumultuous time.Īs we close in on a year of lockdowns and social distancing - and since I know I’m still going to be indulging in regular scrolling bursts while hiding from my children - I decided to see if I could make Instagram a better place to be. Instagram, for all its problems with vaccine misinformation and other conspiracy theories, has been a surprising lifeline this year while I’ve been cut off from the people I love - or even merely like. Facebook was a garbage fire of misinformation long before the pandemic it's also the place where I got information from my neighbors and the local school PTA. I’ve had a love-hate relationship with social media for years. This isn’t an earth-shattering revelation, to be sure, but in the Before Times I had friends to hang out with and now I only have their Instagram Stories to watch. ![]() ![]() ![]() If 2020 has taught me anything, it’s that I have a bottomless appetite for doomscrolling and that Instagram can make me feel both better and worse in the same session. ![]()
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