I lately see Instagram likes as price tags.
Everything you see on Instagram, is presented with a certain judgement attached to it.
You don’t only see the thing (photo / object / person depicted in the photograph) itself, but also what it’s “worth”, valued, for whatever reason, by others than yourself.
Why should we all time know what others think about something?
I think it makes it harder to observe something completely for yourself,
and value something completely for yourself.