I do not like Instagram.  I wish it would die painfully.  Because a filter that makes photos look like they were taken with a cheap camera from the 70's does not make bad photography look good.  It just makes it look like bad photography with a filter on it.  But some people seem to think that Instagramming their photo automatically makes it fine art.  And it's not.

In theory, if used appropriately, Instagram can give you a new twist on a good photo.  But so far, the only Instagrammed photos I've seen that fall into that category are the examples on the Instagram website.

What's worse though, is the fact that one of my artist friends has started using Instagram.  Why she did this is beyond me, since she's already an artist, and doesn't need to post 70's-filtered photos to look artsy.  But she is destroying the quality of her photos by using it, and since most of her photos are of her artwork, she is destroying the images of her artwork as well.

I really hope this is just a passing fad...