“Instagram users who love the outdoors have a habit
of ruining the wild places they touch — a perverse irony that seems lost on them.
“It is now axiomatic that a locale of stunning natural beauty will quickly
degrade into a morass of crowding once it is posted on the platform as a
pristine image. The herd instinct kicks in, and other users who also want to be
photographed in those same lovely landscapes converge with their own cameras
and Instagram accounts and followers — ad infinitum, ad nauseam.”
—Christopher Ketcham, writer, “How
Instagram Ruined the Great Outdoors,” The New Republic, April 18, 2019. Image:
James Cameron, Arches National Park, Utah.
• Editorial Comment: Communing with nature and a few hundred of your iPhone besties.
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Tunaface.
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