There is a right way and there are several wrong ways to take an Instagram selfie with actor/poet/MFA-PhD./creeper James Franco outside of his Broadway production of Of Mice and Men, according to James Franco.

Nickelodeon actress Jennette McCurdy is best known for two things: Starring alongside Ariana Grande in the recently cancelled Sam and Cat and having her lingerie selfies leaked online. The 22-year-old isn't naïve; she's aware she's got some fans who aren't just interested in her acting abilities and her Wall Street Journal blog posts.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, famous patriot and good buddy, caused a stir on Instagram last week with a 1996 photo where he rocked the classic(?) turtleneck-and-chain look, accessorizing with both a belt and a fanny pack. No explanation, just pure, uncut '90s Rock.

Adam Richman, a man who eats sandwiches professionally, was scheduled to eat some other things professionally today as part of a new show called Man Finds Food. That's no longer going to happen, because the Man vs. Food host started an Instagram flame war that culminated in his calling a woman a "cunt."

Maya Peterson, the first black female student body president at the prestigious Lawrenceville School near Princeton, N.J., was stripped of her position after posting an Instagram mocking her rich, white, male classmates. Buzzfeed's Katie J. M. Baker obtained the Instagram — above — featuring Peterson dressed up as the typical "Lawrenceville boi."

If you wanted to follow Rihanna on Instagram (and you should), what would you do? You'd probably Google "rihanna instagram," which turns up an Instagram account with the screen name "Rihanna." But if you follow that particular account you're not getting Rihanna—you're getting a South American teenager squatting on the Barbadian pop star's name. And gaining hundreds of thousands of followers, to boot.

With the impending return of his Comedy Central awkwardfest Nathan For You and a recent profile in the New York Times Magazine, comedian Nathan Fielder has never been more visible. And neither has the porn he's been somewhat subtly sneaking onto Instagram.

To protest China's abuse of power in its battle against terrorism, artist Ai Weiwei posted a photo to Instagram last week of himself making a "gun" with his leg. Since then, thousands of similar poses have flooded Instagram, which, unlike Facebook and Twitter, is not blocked in China.

Person who's here, Scout Willis, floated through the Lower East Side like a topless ghost Tuesday afternoon, scouting locations where nipples are welcome. So far the list consists of: New York City; not Instagram.

Solange Knowles, a Houston woman who threw 'bows at her 44-year-old brother-in-law in an elevator following a party on Cinco de Mayo, threw back Thursday by posting old photographs of herself with elder sister Beyoncé to Instagram. Knowles made headlines on Tuesday when she deleted a photo of herself and Beyoncé from her account—a move which apparently prompted Beyoncé to repost four pictures of the siblings to her own account, which is more popular.

Willow Smith, the 13-year-old daughter of America's jiggiest scientologist, caused a collective freakout when she Instagrammed a photo showing her in bed, fully clothed, with a shirtless actor from Hannah Montana.

Somewhere in Freehold, N.J., hundreds of teen girls were screaming.

Like James Franco before him, another one of America's heroes has become embroiled in an unseemly underage texting scandal that began on Instagram. Say it ain't so, Captain America!

After hitting on teenage girls and posting his nude paintings of Seth Rogen, James Franco's Instagram—1,914,822 followers served!—took the logical next step early this morning: A damn-near-nude photo of Franco himself.

Instagram's #TransformationTuesday is a hashtag where people share their before-and-after gym progress photos or post baby pictures alongside present-day selfies. And now it's also apparently a hashtag for breaking up in public.

The genus Selfie of the family Narcissus contains many species. There is the Selfie brunch and the Selfie drunk. There's the Selfie nail game, the Selfie duck face, and the Selfie humblebrag. But naturalists have only just begun to study a fascinating new breed, the fruit of a tremendous technological innovation in the field of getting baked: the Selfie vape.

Actor/poet/aspiring MFA-Ph.D. James Franco might also be able to add "creepy older dude" to his C.V. after he—or someone very convincingly pretending to be him—tried to arrange a hotel hookup with a 17-year-old girl on Instagram.

[From Tim Barber's Instagram]

Nick Denton, our boss, recently issued yet another of his trademark bank-shot public memoranda, using a follow-up tweet to a Forbes.com outtake of his previously published interview with Playboy to announce what it is that he would like the staff of Gawker to do:

A moronic asshole got arrested today after he posted to Instagram a series of videos of himself terrorizing Philadelphia residents with a pellet gun disguised to look like a handgun.