Last week, production editor/fashion writer Colleen McKenna wrote an extremely popular (and great) post on why companies should be on the photo-based social site Instagram to promote their companies. It was quick, thoughtful and to the point, but because I love to argue and am also a fairly terrible coworker, I thought I would offer a counter-argument. So, in the spirit of being awful, here are 3 reasons why you should never, ever be on Instagram.
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