Instagram keeps working on its app so people would not mind to spend their time on the app.
Some new feature rolled out every month. I think it's safe to say every month, twice in a month. It's great. They really do a good job.
New Highlight feature for Instagram Story? Oh, I like that.
All I know before that was the business account can see their 2 weeks old story on their insight page. Of course if the user don't delete it in 24 hours. The highlight feature is nice, it revive the memory. You can choose which one you need to revive. It showed up as a circle under the bio on profile. It feels like an Album.
Most online shop now use that feature to make the customer tap the product based on model or category easily. I find that helpful.
That's that.
I actually want to write about Instagram Story and people's posts as a whole.
As someone who like visual stuff, Instagram is a safe place for me. Spending time to scroll down the picture beautifully or just another bad angle pics taken, read the long caption or just simple caption, laughing at relatable memes account that's mostly reposted from twitter (twitter is another safe place for me -- let's talk about it later), watching people's instagram story.
I used to be more expressive to the people's posts. I liked a lot. I watched a lot.
Until one fine day early November 2017, make me stop those activities. No likes at all. No likes for everyone. One month later, I took a step forward to not watching people's story.
Trust me, it's hard than it sounds. It's so hard. I was used to it, I feel bad not send them likes or watching their story, especially when I like those posts so much. I had never skipped anyone's stories, I never swiped away if there's a long streak. I want them to have a good day or get a better day if they just shared about a bad day.
Oh that's beautiful rainbow colors circle! It's a full of surprise circle.
I wishfully thinking they don't hate me with the thought in their head that I don't care about them enough, if they care who's seen or liked their posts.
I even don't visit people's profile in this lowkey hiatus. Wow, I did that.
I still do comment and post though. Comment without likes, even though sometimes it feels like there's a void there. Incomplete. You know.
Oh I still do my Instagram story too. Just so I can save them on that site and can revive it someday. A cancerian and its attachment with things, probably.
I don't know why this virtual life become too close to our reality because we're getting used to it now and depending on it like if it's some kind of 'you detach you lose, bitch.' game.
We fell for the idea of it.
We got lost in it.
Sure it's a fine place.
Just like how Pinocchio fell for that 'happy and fun' place.
We also fell for the idea of people in it based on what they've shared, their reaction, their interest. The people we only see via app, inside the screen, interconnected in the cloud somewhere, never see each other in real life.
Never heard their sound, never seen their eyes, never done skin to skin contact such as shake hands during a proper introduction, yet we felt like we've known them for years with all the gathered information we got based on what their posts.
If we take a moment and then realize it's only a split seconds of their daily life behind the screen. Split seconds.
Crazy, isn't it?
How far does the virtual world take us to elaborate it to reality?
What's next?
We can smell food via app?
Anyway..
I feel like I need to break this new habit once because hell..I don't even know what's people up to in their life considering I live alone and human is a social creature. I need to hmmm socialize more. Social creature needs love and other social creature to stay alive and awake.
Nowadays, having a social interaction via virtual is so normalized that it sounds so weird when you're not doing it in this economy.
We found love in the hopeless place.
Again,
Crazy, isn't it?
