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On Fake Instagram, a Chance to Be Real
For a certain generation, Instagram has become a calling card, a life résumé of sorts: “This is me. This is my life. Jealous?”
A scroll through a typical feed is likely to reveal improbable images of just the right artisanal pizza, attractive couples drunk in love and eyebrows “on fleek,” all captured in perfect light and enhanced with various editing tools.
Life becomes a never-ending junior varsity “Vanity Fair” shoot, and the pressure among Instagram’s regular users to present idealized images of themselves has only increased as celebrities have inundated the platform with their own envy-evoking posts.
