Does giving up social media for Lent deny the flesh? It’s complicated – RNS March 12, 2020 by Fulcrum For the second year in a row, I gave up Instagram for Lent. Social media, particularly visual social media, is a particular indulgence of mine, a vice to which I am often particularly vulnerable: the desire to be seen, to create a public and visually arresting narrative of my own life, to create myself through images of vintage clothing (or historical costuming in Venice). Tara Isabella Burton. Religion News Service. 10 March 2020 FulcrumShareTweetShare