{"id":41023,"date":"2018-03-15T19:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T19:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefix.boohoo.com?p=41023"},"modified":"2018-03-15T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T19:00:28","slug":"20-signs-youre-addicted-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefix.boohoo.com\/au\/story\/20-signs-youre-addicted-instagram","title":{"rendered":"20 Signs You&#8217;re Addicted To Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Collage r05 ds i1\">\n<div class=\"i1 capNumFont r05 img imagePreloader imagePreloaderComplete\"><span class=\"innerImg jsInnerImg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgFile aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefix.boohoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/_86828_68554.jpeg?resize=760%2C570&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"570\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t choose the Insta life, the Insta life chose me, and quite frankly it&#8217;s an addiction I, like millions of others won&#8217;t and don&#8217;t wanna kick. So how do you you know if you&#8217;re part of this squad? Read and see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>1. You&#8217;ve been known to &#8216;do it for the &#8216;Gram&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Put on a dress for &#8216;the shot&#8217; and then got back into your comfies? No-one will ever know<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2. You started churning phrases like: &#8216;It didn&#8217;t perform&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>On photos of you and your boyf<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>3. Meals are a photoshoot<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Back off from that burger Beth, you know the rules<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>4. Getting confused when people verbally tell you they liked your latest pic<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Yet didn&#8217;t like it on the app?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>5. You know your peak performance time\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>And aren&#8217;t ashamed to post that 10\/10 Full English live at 10pm if it gets more engagement<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>6. Insta-stalking over 4 weeks deep fills you with dread<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>DO NOT DOUBLE TAP<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>7. You&#8217;ve got hashtags coming out of your ears<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>#POTD #life #instadaily #instagood #howmanyhashtagsistoomanyhashtags<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>8. You&#8217;ve considered deleting a photo that flops\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Even if it&#8217;s of your Uncle&#8217;s 60th last week<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>9. When the app goes down, you start going a little cray<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>DESCRIBE YOUR FOOD TO ME JACK<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>10. You know to stand in the middle of group shots<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m not being cropped out of anyone&#8217;s grid<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>11. \u00a0Gone are the days of #nofilter<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>These bad boys will go through half a dozen apps before going live<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>12. You feel like you know the people you follow on Instagram<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Dan got a haircut last week, Sophie&#8217;s training for a 10K and that bardot dress Lily rocked last Saturday was all of the flame emojis<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>13. I went out last night to that new Italian &#8211; &#8220;Yeah I know I saw it on your Instagram story&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Becomes a regular occurrence<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>14. You feel like you&#8217;ve Insta scrolled for miles<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It should be a sport<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>15. Whenever someone says they&#8217;re going on an epic holiday, you&#8217;ve considered unfollowing them<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>No-one needs your beach shots on a Monday Brenda when it&#8217;s throwing it down outside. That&#8217;s all I&#8217;m saying&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>16. You&#8217;ve got Insta lost<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It started with a quick browse but now you&#8217;re on your boyf&#8217;s cousin&#8217;s wife&#8217;s vacay photos from 2015. Miami looked like fun<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>17. You&#8217;ve got Insta poses down<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hot dog legs? Pah, could do that in my sleep<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>18. Your phone&#8217;s full of images<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>But only 1 out of 20 will make the cut<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>19. You&#8217;ve led an Insta-lie<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>That breakfast happened sure, about three weeks ago on a weekend in London. In reality you&#8217;re in bed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>20. Getting compliments on your feed is like winning an Oscar<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to thank Afterlight, a good eye for photography, natural light and a marble backdrop<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[183],"tags":[4146,3104,4665,4172,4786],"class_list":["post-41023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-au","tag-instagram-au","tag-life-au","tag-lifestyle-au","tag-signs-au","tag-social-au"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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