Please Instagram, don’t take away my mindless, time-killing scrolling

It happened to me: I was a victim of Instagram’s botched update. 

I woke up on Thursday and went through my usual morning routine — shut off my alarm after four painful rounds of hitting snooze, cleared my notifications, and blearily scrolled through social media to catch up on whatever I missed out on while I was asleep. Facebook was full of holiday photos from my mildly problematic family friends, and Twitter was refreshingly devoid of hot takes. 

Then I got to Instagram, tapped through whatever popped up on my screen without actually reading it, and seemed to hit a wall while scrolling. Still half-asleep, I closed the app and tried again, when a pop-up told me there was a “new way to move through posts.” I ignored it again and tried my usual mindless scroll, but only went through the comments of a niche meme instead.  Read more…

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