Ⅲ.综合运用

What It Takes to Be an Instagram Influencer

Meghan Young is a professional Instagram star.She gets paid to climb beautiful mountains,photograph their glittering summits and post about her adventures to her fans.

Young g__1__from Seattle University's School of Law in 2015.But she decided she didn't want to become a lawyer.Her parents were shocked by the decision.“They were w__2__about what I was going to do,”Young says.“How was I going to find career stability?”

But her legal skills haven't gone to waste.Once companies express an interest in working with her，there's the tough task of negotiating the terms（条款）of the deal.And the work is still unfinished even after she's done taking the photos.When Young r__3__from her adventures，she carefully edits the images and writes captions（说明文字）to go along with them.Once the posts are public，businesses sometimes don't pay on time.That's when she needs to follow up.Her least favorite problem is when she discovers that a company has used her photos in a way that violates the terms of the contract.That usually l__4__to timeconsuming email exchanges.

Social media influencing is not as effortless as it seems.The stress it creates even has its own name：creator burnout（精疲力竭）.Young used to obsessively（着魔似地）check her posts'p__5__，which she says will“drive you crazy”，so she stopped.But if she doesn't reply，people will stop commenting.Without that engagement on her posts，brands won't want to keep paying her.Therefore，she had to accept the fact that she'll be tethered（拴住）to her phone as long as she's in this line of work.

Beyond the day-to-day headaches of a career online，social media's inherent（固有的）uncertainty also poses problems for creators.There are times when Young is staring at the calendar without another project in the works.In the long term，it can be risky to focus a career on a single p__6__，or even on social media itself.

Yet Young says it's all been worth it，because the sponsorships allow her to spend much of her life in the mountains.Her ideal day starts with unzipping（拉开拉链）her tent at dawn so she can take pictures of the sunrise r__7__on snowy summits around her.Few jobs in the world would allow her to do that so consistently.

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