u/Low-Beautiful-7230

First of all I didn't know some sub for this shitty college existed, just found out lol.

Dekho the thing is yaha mere batch main hi cse ki 500 se jyada seats hai and saari seats 1500 tak jaa rahi hai. And surely iss saal aur bhi kahi jyada seats hogi sab branches ki, darne ki jarurat nahi hai, mere bohot dost hai jinko 2 lakh tak ki rank pe bhi cse mil gayi thi (Gen) wale idk how this works but agar 1.5 lakh tak rank hai to u can think of getting cse easily and SC/St to 4-5 lakh aaram se maan lo, ab pata nahi JECRC ki jyada fan following hogayi go to.

Plus CSE is the worst branch of this college, u will understand. Welcome to the clg

I really f**king hate Instagram and short form content for the fact. I could write a 101-page essay explaining why I hate it.

The whole platform is algorithmic hell. Instagram is literally designed to push whatever gets the most engagement, whether that's ragebait, fake lifestyles, recycled content, thirst traps, or AI-generated slop. The algorithm rewards addiction, not quality.

What annoys me the most is how everything feels fake. People aren't sharing their lives anymore; they're building personal brands. Every post feels curated, optimized, filtered, and engineered to get validation from strangers. Vacations become photo shoots. Relationships become content. Even random acts of kindness somehow need a camera pointed at them.

The attention span damage is insane too. You open the app for five minutes and suddenly you've spent an hour scrolling through hundreds of videos you'll forget by tomorrow. Every reel is fighting for your dopamine with louder music, faster cuts, brighter colors, and more outrageous takes than the last one. It feels less like entertainment and more like a slot machine.

And the comment sections are somehow even worse. Half the comments are bots, engagement farmers, or people repeating the same recycled jokes they've seen a thousand times before. The other half are ragebait arguments designed to keep people fighting because outrage drives engagement.

IK it seems contradicting but I am one, and I would love to know I am not the only one.

How does your personality show up in daily life? Do you also feel like you're constantly caught between wanting independence, intellectual exploration, and a strong need to stay in control of your own life?