Sure it can be used artistically but overall I'd say it represents one of the more ugly facets of modern life.
It's become the mosquito of the Internet, possibly useful in some mysterious way but if I had to choose a species to exterminate it'd probably be that one.
Instagram would not be 1/10th as popular as it is if it was only "possibly useful in some mysterious way". If you don't like it then don't use it, but it clearly has a use for many many people. We shouldn't get rid of a tool 300 million people voluntarily choose to use just because you're upsets at the way some american teenagers use it.
It's become the mosquito of the Internet, possibly useful in some mysterious way but if I had to choose a species to exterminate it'd probably be that one.