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SO CIAL WEB 10 Types Of People You Find On Instagram I nstagram has become one of the most widely used photo-sharing apps in the world today and is considered a world of its own with more than 300 million users. After spending endless hours on the photo sharing app, I came up with a list of people we often come across while scrolling through our feeds, based on the kinds of photos and videos they upload on a regular basis. Fellow IGers, I present to you the 10 types of people you meet on Instagram, in no particular order! 1. The Selfie Queen She pouts, winks, and feigns boredom, all in a self-taken photograph. But that’s not all. She has a #NoFilter selfie, a #NoMakeUp selfie, a #Sunglasses Selfie, a #Random selfie, a #BlackAndWhite selfie—basically, she invented the selfie and then improvised the invention with several new inventions. Lo and behold, she is the one true Selfie Queen. And she lets the selfies ‘reign’ down on your feed every single time you open your Instagram account. Phew! P.S.: Selfies are more a girl-thing than it is a guy-thing; so, not being sexist. Just so you know. 2. The One with the Posse They were probably the missing character from ‘FRIENDS’, or at least, they hope so. You see pictures of them laughing their asses off with random strangers (who are more often than not wondering what’s so funny anyway), passed out on a king-sized bed with a bunch of others and you’re secretly wondering what they did, posing with an endless row of people who look like they could be pulling a nerve from standing in that awkward way. Long story short, they have a lot of friends; a LOT. Never mind if they just met them yesterday or a few hours ago at that rave party they went to, as long as it makes for a potential Instagram post. What are friends for, right? 3. The ݙ\