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The Canva infographics set destroyed IG. It became hyper topic after 2016 and never recovered. Good example of how not to run a platform.

Now it’s all ads and nonorganic posts. People only really use stories anymore. A few of My friends are influencers and they’ve all given up on IG and moved to TikTok.

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The Canva infographics set destroyed IG. It became hyper topic after 2016 and never recovered. Good example of how not to run a platform. Now it’s all ads and nonorganic posts. People only really use stories anymore. A few of My friends are influencers and they’ve all given up on IG and moved to TikTok.

> The Canva infographics set

What does this mean?

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That app is super addicting and totally toxic. The shit it puts in my feed is crazy. It's like 100s "normal" posts and then all of sudden it's like here some whacky shit what do you think about this eh?

You get 100s of normal posts before the "whacky" stuff? For me it seems like every other post is either an ad or "whacky"

About 1/3rd for me, just a quick scan now.

I am not terribly active on it though.

But let me say that it's total horse shit that most of my notifications aren't related to my posts, or posts I've interacted with.

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The Canva infographics set destroyed IG. It became hyper topic after 2016 and never recovered. Good example of how not to run a platform. Now it’s all ads and nonorganic posts. People only really use stories anymore. A few of My friends are influencers and they’ve all given up on IG and moved to TikTok.

> The Canva infographics set What does this mean?

Online tool for creating infographics: https://www.canva.com/create/infographics/

Re: The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most

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Instagram democratizes the mental illness that used to only affect child stars and the hollywood famous.

Who people think we are is who we are because identity is a reflection, not an actual thing in reality (similar to colors not existing in reality).

Having access to a extra mirrors at first creates a sense of control. You know your mom and dad won't give you a "non-distorted" reflection so the reflection from strangers is worth more. Colleagues or friends saying "you're smart!" means a lot more from them.

When each mirror is carefully placed, the "whole" of we we are and would like to be can be understood more deeply just like 7 blind men working together understand the elephant more deeply.

However when the mirrors are mass produced and cheap and you have no control over their place in your life, then the identity becomes overwhelmed by expectation. Just like super high resolution makes your pores look larger, the mirror array makes every aspect of your life feel like shit even if from a rational analysis "extra information should never be a danger"

Re: The apps that Americans search to “delete” the most

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The Canva infographics set destroyed IG. It became hyper topic after 2016 and never recovered. Good example of how not to run a platform. Now it’s all ads and nonorganic posts. People only really use stories anymore. A few of My friends are influencers and they’ve all given up on IG and moved to TikTok.

> The Canva infographics set What does this mean?

I was similarly confused and looked it up. I believe it’s just a set of templates for making infographics. Hard to draw the dots between “free templates” and “toxic social media app”
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