Homogeneity through Instagram and the Internet

Homogeneity through Instagram and the Internet

This is a good read for the weekend: an article about how social media, especially Instagram, tends to homogenize the personalities of the people who use it. Freya India begins the article by identifying how image-driven media and influential lifestyles have changed the way people, especially young women, make choices. He calls it “Instagram face” …

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Instagram finally uses a dynamic theme for the app icon on Android

Instagram finally uses a dynamic theme for the app icon on Android

Summary Instagram’s Android app is finally updating its icon to support dynamic theming, allowing it to automatically borrow colors from the user’s active wallpaper. While other social media apps have already adopted themed icons, Meta (Instagram’s parent company) has yet to update the app icon for Facebook. Using a forced dynamic theme can improve the …

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