While Instagram may have started as a magnet for fashion, food and pets, over the past year the highly addictive platform has been spreading its tendrils into the very fabric of our lives. The first time I asked my mum if we might consider working some “millennial marble” into our house, she looked at me like I was having a breakdown. This is the woman who has found me crying on the (non-marble) bathroom floor more times than I like to admit. A decade before marble became “a thing”, my mother had paid a significant amount of money to strip all the stone from our house and replace it with nice whitewashed wood. Little did she know that the legacy from the previous homeowners was,…

Source: The Times February 18, 2018 00:06 UTC