The city of George Town, ###### the Malaysian state of Penang, ###### long drawn tourists to its ######. The sherbet-colored shophouses, intricately tiled ###### and historic temples and mosques ###### for great photos. But in ###### years something else has been ###### camera-toting travelers: dozens of street ###### murals that practically beg to ###### selfie backdrops on Instagram.

Penang ###### one of a number of ###### taking advantage of the wildly ###### photo-based social media apps. Instagram, ###### example, has 800 million users, ###### is more than a tenth ###### the world's population.]]>
Restaurants have been ###### the forefront of Instagramization. Since ###### media mentions can make or ###### a restaurant's success, owners have ###### attuned to what visual aspects ###### food and décor appeal to ######. This means restaurants have become ###### and brighter.]]>
Promoting Photo-Friendly Spaces

Retail stores have ###### same incentives to create photo-friendly ######. While some say social media ###### killing traditional shopping, stores are ###### what they can to harness ######.

Laureen Moyal is the designer ###### some of New York's most-Instagrammed ######. She says the value businesses ###### placing on a social media ###### ramped up "very aggressively" over ###### past year or so.

Museums ###### also playing the game.]]>
Perhaps the culmination of ###### is an entirely new category ###### cultural institution, the made-for-Instagram "experience." ###### best-known example is The Museum ###### Ice Cream in San Francisco, ######, the hashtag #museumoficecream has 93,000 ###### and counting. The exhibit is ###### series of rooms that are ###### photo sets. The "museum" has ###### wildly popular, with six-month runs ###### out in 90 minutes. Experiencing Everything Twice

Patrick ###### is a famed Instagrammer with ###### followers and he's just gotten ###### from a trip to The ###### of Ice Cream.]]>
Instagram seems ###### be changing the aspects and ###### of a city that travelers ###### worthwhile. Travel writers are increasingly ###### stories with titles like "The ###### Instagrammable Street Art in LA (###### Angeles, California)" and "The Most ###### Places in London (England)." These ###### often include places well off ###### standard tourist track.

Michiel de ###### is a professor of new ###### studies at Utrecht University in ###### Netherlands.]]>
But some say the Instagramization ###### the world is leading to ###### troubling sameness. Kyle Chayka of ###### Guardian writes that social media ###### spreading a generic look across ###### globe. You can travel from ###### to Los Angeles to Hong ###### and find coffee shops, hotels, ###### offices with the same Instagram-friendly ######.]]>
Doing What Everyone Else Is Doing

Then there's the ###### that social media encases you ###### a bubble. You see where ###### like you are going, what @@@@'@@ eating, what they're liking, via ###### or Facebook, then do the ###### yourself. As de Lange points ######, this opposes the values of ###### city experts like Jane Jacobs. ###### believed that one of a @@@@'@ greatest purposes was to bring ###### or different groups of strangers ######.

Then, of course, there's the ###### that viewing the world through ###### phone's camera is an impoverished ###### to live.]]>
######, as big an Instagram booster ###### they come, does think there's ###### in not always trying to ###### a picture. "Ultimately what we ###### are really wonderful experiences," Janelle ######. "And sure we want to ###### able to document them on ###### media, but we also crave ###### that are just really wonderful ###### special in real life."]]>