'I selfie, therefore I am': Instagram 10 years onInstagram celebrates its 10-year anniversaryPARIS - #Foodporn, #nofilter and #TBT: Little known to the general public a decade ago, Instagram has weaved its way into the daily lives of a billion people, changing the way we eat, travel and consume. On October 6, 2010 two Americans, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, launched Instagram as a social network dedicated to photo sharing. I selfie, therefore I am," said Michael Stora, psychologist and president of the French research collective Observatory of Digital Worlds in Humanities (OMNSH). Others use Instagram to choose their next vacation, and tourist offices rely heavily on content creators to promote their destinations. Instagram gives teenagers a false sense of reality and pressure for perfection "that they cannot live up to", he said.
Source: Bangkok Post October 02, 2020 07:52 UTC