I am completely consumed by my phone about 90 percent of my waking hours. I am sure that most people who are around my age, or have similar interests, will say the same.

What am I doing on my phone all the time, you ask? Well, I pretty much just stay on social media.

I take Twitter as a joke the majority of the time and just post whatever I'm thinking. However, Instagram is a totally different story. I am very strategic about the photos that I post, the time of day I post, and how often I post, among other factors.

If you ask a majority of people, they post what they want, when they want, however often they want. Then there are the people, like myself, who are very selective about everything that goes into their online profile. The majority thinks it is stupid to spend a lot of time to "perfect" a specific social media platform -- I mean, it is only social media, right? Wrong.

To a lot of people, Instagram is art. My friends and I will go out specifically to take pictures to post. My mom and other adults her age don't understand -- they think it wastes too much time, or it's not worth the effort.

They all think we spend too much time on our phones.

I have never been good at art in the traditional sense -- I cannot paint, I cannot draw, and I'm terrible at sculpting clay. ButI have found a love for taking pictures. Even though I only post a couple of pictures from each trip, I still enjoy every step of the process.

I have fun scouting out photo locations. Being silly with my friends while "posing" and trying to create candids brings me so much joy. Sitting down to go through the pictures and seeing what we actually shot is fun. I love looking at the different faces we make and the poses we come up with. It is such a bonding time with my friends and it is free entertainment. Plus, it gets me outside.

I use a real camera, so I'm not even on my phone for most of it. I can also use the pictures I take as an opportunity to build my portfolio. I also genuinely enjoy editing. Sometimes the lighting in a pictures turns out wrong or the coloring is off, but editing can make a picture go from OK to awesome. Watching the transformation in front of me is so fun. Captions are the opportunity to be silly, or serious.

It can really be whatever you want it to be.

I think part of the reason people don't understand is because they don't know how to do it. People tell me all the time that they love my Instagram pictures, or that they want me to help them with their pictures. It's something that I enjoy, so I don't feel like it's wasting my time. I do the best I can and I love creating pictures to post and love seeing the reactions that my peers and others have from them.

I'm not trying to make my life seem cooler than it actually is. I am only trying to create my own art.