Not arguing but that was not an instagram thing. Totally different from what’s happening now. Both silly though.
That was 2013. And no instragrammer would write a book … do they even know how to form entire sentences?
How could it, Insta barely existed back then.
Genau. So why bring it up in an instagram thread?
Maybe the discussion shifted? Just in case you don’t know, that’s a common occurrence.
Besides, nobody forces you to comment if you don’t like it, just ignore it. I trust you can do that.
I used to roll my eyes hard at instagrammers, and at the idea of influencing being a job, let alone a profession. What a silly, shallow way to live!
But then I started to look at the state of the world through Gen Z eyes. For instance, here’s an NYT article about how difficult it is for STEM graduates to find jobs in 2025, titled “Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html
In a world where the profession you studied for likely will not exist much beyond your graduation, maybe something that seems silly to this old lady, who started ‘adulting’ in a very different world, might not be so silly after all. Gen Z’s world is a mystery to me, but I’m glad I don’t have to navigate this new reality. At least these young folks are doing something to pay their bills.
I still hate tripping over annoying instagrammers jammering on while I’m trying to hike around Pilatus.
But perhaps my eyes aren’t rolling quite so hard.
I can just say: so?
“I just graduated with a computer science degree, and the only company that has called me for an interview is Chipotle,”
That’s the point, software is also applied to boring and mundane things. Not everything is sexy work. A few more years of uncertainty may cure this feeling of “this boring work is below me” 
Also, maybe that’s her true call, obeying blindly for so many years is not the way.
Ms. Mishra, the Purdue graduate, did not get the burrito-making gig at Chipotle. But her side hustle as a beauty influencer on TikTok, she said, helped her realize that she was more enthusiastic about tech marketing and sales than software engineering.
The realization prompted Ms. Mishra to apply cold for a tech company sales position that she found online. The company offered her the tech sales job in July.
She starts this month.
Actually, I have nothing against influencers who are doing a job. I was thinking more about people who spend their whole holidays posing for photos to create a false image of themselves to impress others.
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Hard to say if they were idiots. As I recall from the film they were on their way back from India passing thru Pakistan, which was where they were abducted and then brought to the Taliban in Afgan.
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A few years ago I heard people say things like “let’s make some memories”. That sentece as is seemed weird to me. After that I noticed how often that term was actually actually used; we’ll make some memories together, in that house, on that trip …
Before they even set off to do something it was all about the memories.
It made me laugh. It still does.
It must have to do with all the photos that are taken, people don’t look at things anymore - may it be fireworks, a life concert, nature - they look at the screen of their tiny handies showing it to them. Ever watched a crowd somewhere? All you see is handies in the air.
And not only instagrammers, it has become a way to look at your surrounding.
Yes, I’m very conscious of this. I used to watch competitive ballroom dancing and also photograph the events. The experience of photographing was very much different from watching the event.
I always stopped photographing at the finals to be fully un-distracted when watching. I take some snapshots now and then, but usually try to enjoy moments rather than ‘capture’ them.
That said, the photos are useful: my memory is getting worse and I forget so much of what I’ve done. The photos are a useful reminder.
A study recently published discovered that events which people witnessed without recording or photographing remained more vivid in their memories for more years after the event.
It really pays to put the camera/smart phone away at times and just enjoy the moment.
This reminds me of this Reddit post:
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That’s roughly what they said. IIRC they said they even had police escorting them (not sure how that’s supposed to have worked, mind. It seems rather naive to trust any corrupt people, they’ll work for the highest bidder).
However Afghanistan and Pakistan’s Pashtun areas can be entirely bypassed. It’s what reasonable people would have done.
Sometimes I think it’s danger just for the sake of danger. Ignorance and naivety also play a part?
How was the authority corrupt and how should one be able to determine such?
They were basically a bit reckless in that the Swiss government had issued a warning about the region in 2008. However, if I followed the warnings of my government to the book I would never leave Switzerland.
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I sill think my generation was smarter then. There was a wave of faking holidays to impress others. People were buying services to get an envelope of fake photos, and have their postcard sent to the office from the fake vacation, whilst they were enjoying some cheap vacation somewhere else. Surely social media killed this
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Thanks for bringing travel postcards up. I remembered a few things and laughed hard.
My mom was and still is against postcards because banal and just to impress other people. We can enjoy traveling without showing-off, right? 
postcards.
We received once a postcard from one of my uncles from nice beach destination, and her reaction was basically the original post from Phil_MCR: debt + showing-off + fakeness.
Nothing changes, hahahaha
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How else do John Doe and Jane Que get a police escort?
My mom was and still is against postcards because banal and just to impress other people. We can enjoy traveling without showing-off, right?
I agree. I just told my ex- that from now on, we’ll be on no-talking terms. (we have a very good relation). He sent me yesterday several whatsapp photos (that look like postcards) of his recent trip to Fiji…ON BUSINESS! 
lucky b******d! (we used to work for the same company)
A Millennial is now a Saint!