#213: Instagram: A Love Story

Breaking up with the algorithm, returning to the path

I remember the night I first got Instagram.

I was sitting in a pub called Gabbys (which doesn’t exist anymore) with my sister Em and our friends Anna and Leah. It was a Friday night in 2014, in November, in mid-town Toronto. Leah asked me if I had Instagram, and I said no.

“Oh, you would love Instagram,” she said. “You can add filters to photos and post t…