Best of the Best: Sorry, Instagram the Website Is Good

Yes, I *know* that’s not how you’re supposed to use Instagram

Not to be like “Instagram is a better website than it is an app” but I need you to know that I truly believe this. You also need to know that Instagram was not in any way created to be a website instead of an app. It is, by any objective measure, a terrible website; a terrible website I logged onto probably every single day of 2018.

There are no DMs on Instagram The Website™ and you can’t post stories, you can only observe. But unless you’re a celebrity or super into fake-vlogging, that’s what we’re all on Instagram for, right? Watching other people. Instagram is like a huge weird panopticon we’re all willingly being involved in and Instagram The Website™ is the most pure iteration of this. You can only watch. You can only see. And — despite it being barely fuinctional — you’ll love it. Just lean into loving it and your life will be easier.

Trust me.

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