I think at least half of the comments here are missing the point. This article is not about photography. The title is not "Photography Is Ruining Vacation". Yet, everyone's here defending photography, as if that's what's being criticized. We've had annoying tourist photography since the invention of the handheld camera, but that's not what the article is about.
The title is saying exactly that. It doesn't provide any insight what's wrong if there's something wrong at all. How long does it take to take an instagram shot? 2-3 seconds? How many do you take on a journey? 50-100? Do the math and divide that with the length of your journey. Taking pics is a marginal activity.
It's easy to judge a class of people, when you have a special event, like a sunrise. But did the author followed them after it passed? No. She just seen an opportunity to bash "modern instagram culture" because she thinks people are not enjoying themselves anymore thanks to a mobile app. The whole article has an everything was better back then feeling which I've seen millions of times.
Nope, I just use photography and "to instragram" interchangeably as people use to google for search although everybody* knows that there's more search engines out there.
