{"id":22863,"date":"2024-10-01T16:27:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T16:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/01\/dump-post-repeat-how-instagram-became-a-social-media-junkyard-2\/"},"modified":"2024-10-01T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T16:27:20","slug":"dump-post-repeat-how-instagram-became-a-social-media-junkyard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/01\/dump-post-repeat-how-instagram-became-a-social-media-junkyard-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dump, post, repeat: how Instagram became a social media junkyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our photo dumps used to be an aesthetic disruption. Now we\u2019re just bending to the app\u2019s will<\/p>\n<p>Last year, I took 658 photos during my four-day trip to Venice. Fifteen years ago, I would have posted every single one of them to Facebook. And as I waited the three hours for them to upload, I would have opened another tab to look through all 500 photos in my second-cousin\u2019s friend\u2019s FLORIDA \u201809 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a> album, which would have included 48 shots of the same sunset and 16 of a chip flavor she didn\u2019t have back at home.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/instagram\">Instagram<\/a> as our primary photo-sharing method, that packet of chips would end up on slide seven of what my second-cousin\u2019s friend would call a dump: a retrospective of her summer compacted into a carousel of artfully artless images.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/oct\/01\/instagram-photo-dump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our photo dumps used to be an aesthetic disruption. Now we\u2019re just bending to the app\u2019s will Last year, I took 658 photos during my four-day trip to Venice. Fifteen years ago, I would have posted every single one of them to Facebook. And as I waited the three hours for them to upload, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}