““We are trying to show a real person doing cool things as a real person, not trying to create a persona that isn’t actually you.””— Taylor Lorenz, theatlantic.com
“We want your followers to focus on what you share, not how many likes your posts get. During this test, only the person who shares a post will see the total number of likes it gets.”— ALEKSANDRA PAVLOVSKA, dailymail.co.uk
“If Diane feels comfortable leaving a harem of clowns alone in her house, they can’t be that scary, right?”— Isabel Jones , instyle.com
“Perhaps this may come as a surprise, but neither local nor state police have jurisdiction over which accounts are allowed to remain on Instagram.”— Emily Alford, jezebel.com
“What is their legit reason for not liking me? They've never met me in person. How can you hate me from a computer? How can you write a paragraph about someone and hate them so much after just seeing a video of them?”— Jessy Taylor, Lindsay Dodgson, thisisinsider.com
“The new army of Insta-poets offers short, crisp, yet meaningful lines that the youth can relate to—but most importantly, appreciate it in real time. These lines satiate our thirst for something meaningful that our otherwise fast-paced, shallow lives lack...”— Gariyashi Bhuyan, idiva.com
“The wellness culture on Instagram is so damaging because it’s so fear based. It’s saying, ‘If you don’t eat a certain way, you’re going to have bad skin or a bad body.’”— Kristi Hall, Elisabeth Sherman, huffpost.com
“We are receiving many messages regarding collaborations with...Instagram influencers...we would like to suggest to try another way to eat, drink, or sleep for free. Or try to actually work.”— Gianlucca Casaccia, Heather Murphy, nytimes.com
“A social media influencer has been arrested after her pictures depicting a life of luxury tipped Colombian police to her father’s money laundering scheme.”— Anna Harnes, inquisitr.com
“It doesn’t matter how many people follow you, but how many people support you.”— The H Hub, thehhub.com
“It’s flourishing now as one of the web’s most compelling storytelling platforms, a repository for uplifting confessions, compressed screeds, some with candidly political overtones, self-help digests, mini essays and speculative musings and, perhaps most compellingly, serialized memoirs in sound-bite…”— Ruth La Ferla, nytimes.com
“Instagram is an incredibly valuable platform that has positives and negatives, especially as a creative. For photographers we’ve talked to, they also believe it is a great creative tool.”— The H Hub, thehhub.com
“Among those truths: that certain cosmetics and foods contain aborted fetal cells, that the recent Ethiopian Airlines crash was a hoax, and that the Christchurch, New Zealand mosque shootings were staged.”— Taylor Lorenz, theatlantic.com
“'What's the point of this, to gain attention?' Uh, yes. That's the whole point of Instagram. That's the whole point of anything.”— Cody Ko, youtube.com
“I like to imagine that this person is truly invested in thinking through the ways humans and technology interact. That they’ve read Audre Lorde, believe a relationship is sharing deeply any pursuit with another person, and have purposefully created a boundary between their Instagram persona and thei…”— Emma Bracy, manrepeller.com