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[quote=Anonymous]I recently got very sucked into the world of instagram infertility accounts.  I went through infertility (prior to this world existing I think) and feel for these women and in some ways found some closure for my own feelings about it through reading their experiences.  But its such a strange world....the getting sucked into their transfer results, the way they all (they all = the influencers with thousands of followers, i'm sure there are more normal small accounts post the same dramatic very performative feeling way with crying picture when a transfer fails (which is an AWFUL experience...i'm just commenting on the strange wording / structure similarity in all their posts on it), the letter boards, the teaser posts about what's next, the way the pretty white girls were the ones that became popular, the finally getting pregnant, the hand wringing posts about how they still fit into "the community" etc.  I finally deleted them all because I realized it wasn't healthy for me to be so deep in these strangers lives and I was more judging the performative nature of the influencers than cheering them on.

I'm curious what ones others have fallen into.  I do think instagram can have value, when I was diagnosed with a chronic illness I got useful info, I get inspired following some family travel accounts, and I love looking at pictures of far flung places....but it can also just be such strange subcultures[/quote]

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