Juliana Kochis
Ling Ma
True Stories 1134
2 September 2014
Instaglam
Inventors are making a lucrative profit from apps that blur out acme, change the
background lightening, and add filters to make a picture look more appealing. I was
always one to use social media. Leaving for college and a new life, I deactivated all my
social media except for Instagram; it never even crossed my mind to erase it. My
Instagram portrays Jul Kochis, a fun, stylish girl with a big smile—not necessarily the
Ivy-League student who sacrificed many weekends (that included an 11:15 curfew) to
