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The app made it easy to turn your reality into something aesthetically pleasing and worth offering up for the approval of strangers. Receiving an online “like” delivers a feel-good dopamine hit, and scrolling through other people’s photos can feel intimate and voyeuristic, as though you’re outside, peering into row upon row of illuminated living room windows – only everyone’s a bit more attractive than average, and the bookshelves are neatly arranged, and no one’s baby is screaming. By June 2018, Instagram had over a billion active users and even people who have never signed up to the website would find their lives had been shaped by it, in ways that are at once monumental and sometimes hard to identify.