Instagram makes us more cultured

In the magical/damned world of social networks, people have built a fairy universe in which everything is perfect, all have bright and porcelain skin, listen good music, shot sunsets with unreal shades and the best side of each has the upper hand.

It would not seem appropriate to accuse these users of falsehoods because, after all, even when the photographs were taken with the digital heavy cameras, no one liked to be shot in the morning. When MySpace was "cool", they committed to create the perfect playlist and publishing states, phrases, poems that were"synonymous of wisdom, sensitivity and intelligence".

Here, today thanks to Instagram, we can all improve ourselves, but this time we do not talk about filters, kitten ears or spiky in the face, but poetry. People are returning to love poetry thanks to the "Instapoets", promising Baudelaire that between a post and the other, share with the social world their thoughts, their reflections, their art.

Consequent reaction will therefore be the sharing of the content and therefore the diffusion of what we might consider a modern sketch of poetry.

Going to browse on Instagram, the now popular hashtag #instapoet has more than 1,800.00 posts, including shots of book covers and notebook sheets with sentences written with pen. The beauty of the erasures makes everything more real and takes away the reality that now implicitly and superficially associate with the world of Instagram made of selfie, selfie and belfie.

An emblematic example of how this phenomenon has acquired resonance is the Canadian Rupi Kaur who, thanks to the hashtag #instapoets, managed to show his talent and then publish Milk and Honey, a personal collection of his most beautiful quotes.

Among 17,600 US adults, 11.7 percent said they had read at least one poem in 2017. A huge step forward compared to 6.7 percent of 2012.

Jennifer Benka, director of the Academy of American Poets, has declared that:

"... poets like Rupi Kaur who share their work on social networks have helped encourage more and more young people to reconnect with poetry."

Can we therefore say that Instagram is making us all more romantic and acculturated?