Happy Place

Last week I visited Happy Place, an installation made specifically for people to take Instagram photos. Here’s how it works. Visitors pay a fee (around $30 I believe) and then they can go through a series of sets taking photos of themselves in them.  Setups like this have gotten a lot of flack and I don’t disagree that they’re flawed. I think it’s important not to correlate manufactured images created for the Internet with genuine happiness. Your emotional well being and self worth should never be tied to social media. That said, if you recognize the cultural pitfalls of this kind of experience, there’s no reason not to enjoy it. I had a...