Humble beginnings
November 15, 2018
Do you remember the old Instagram? Ordinary. Simple. Filter-frenzied. Hashtags galore. Nothing particularly artful or calculated. No Instagram stories, direct messages, explore pages, like-consciousness, follower to following ratio anxiety. The mundanity of the early photos is depicted by an early Serena Williams post from 2011.
Smartphones did not have high-quality cameras to display the kind of content people now see on Instagram. Now, celebrities carefully depict their lives via Instagram. Overflowing with paid advertisement posts, professional photography and a vivacious media presence, many celebrities and Instagram influencers identify with the app. The same can be said for teenagers and students at St. Paul Academy and Summit School.