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Instagram's Wannabe-Stars Are Driving Luxury Hotels Crazy

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I have a sibling who has 20,000 followers on Instagram, doesn't save a penny, and blows everything on superficial bullshit to paint a life she doesn't have.

I don't have sympathy for my own family member. The obsession with portraying yourself as someone your not and getting validation from people you don't even know is a cancer. I blame my parents but I also blame these platforms and their jackass developers who think they're saving the world with their "innovation". Again, I blame my parents on this mostly.

Don't blame anyone but the person who is performing these actions. She doesn't exactly have a gun to her head.

If/when her lifestyle is no longer sustainable, offer her a bit of help and send her on her way after she's dusted herself off.

>their jackass developers who think they're saving the world with their "innovation"

May want to target the psychologists, behavioural economists and similar who come up with the gamification to drive some of this narcissistic behaviour.

Not that those doing the implementation of it are guilt-free, of course.

Can't wait until society moves past this "look at me, look at me, LOOK AT ME!" phase. Or it won't, and I'll die a bitter old man from it.

They’re “changing” the world, not “saving” it. Change can always be for the worse.

As Margaret Atwood wrote: "Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some."

I'm sorry, the tone of this article is a joke."How do we deal with all these fake wannabe influencers cold emailing us and asking for free stuff."

I don't know, maybe do what all of us do and filter out spammers, delete emails, and follow up quickly with anyone who seems promising?

Or maybe ignore all of the requests? I mean damn, it's not like a hotel manager is a demigod.

Yeah, uh hi, I'm interested in your...uh...Self-Absorbed Jackass package. What does that entail?

"...part of an ever-growing class of people who have leveraged their social media clout to..."

"OK. I'm out." (splash) ~Maui

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