Instagram Essay On Social Media

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Meagan Nakamoto Brooke Bishop Writing 121 16 January 2018 The Power of Instagram: Examine how social media influences Living in the 21st century, our lives revolve around social media. We can get instant news updates, entertainment when we are bored, even easy dinner recipes by just moving our fingers. Nowadays everyone is on social media, that is why it is such a powerful yet dangerous tool. Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms at the moment, and has been for quite a long time. An app that celebrities, companies, and everyday people use to post whatever they’d like. It may be taking over our lives and becoming apart of our daily routines, but is that really a bad thing? Some people feel that social media is hurting our society, but others may feel that it is helping, it could even be doing both. Instagram all started when an entrepreneur combined his passion for photography and his mastery of programming. Kevin Systrom with help from Mike Krieger were able to invent one of the most popular social media apps used in this generation (Roberts, fortune.com). It is used by a wide variety of people. Although the minimum age to have an Instagram account is 13 years old, I do not doubt that there are children as young nine years old that use it, …show more content…

If you look up any company on Instagram you would most likely to able find them. So many people use Instagram because it is free advertisement and can reach so many people around the world. Eva Chen, Instagram’s Head of Fashion Partnerships, said Instagram helps business get a better connection with their customers (Jenkins, cnn.com). An artist named Rafaël Rozendaal uses Instagram to preview his artworks and promote his work and also show a part of his life. (Jenkins, cnn.com). Through social media you can reach so many more people instead of just in your country you can reach people

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