There's a new Instagram in town. Instagram Plus purports to bring users "more of what you love." For $3.99 a month, Plus members will be able to see make themselves invisible so that others are unable to track their views. While ensuring their anonymity, Plus members will gain greater insight into other users, receiving insights into who has rewatched their stories.

"I’m not against social media. These platforms, at their best, can foster connection," writes Jenna Mindel at CT." Later, she adds, "But curiosity is easily corrupted, as theologians have long understood. Thomas Aquinas cautioned that 'sight-seeing becomes sinful, when it renders a man prone to the vices of lust and cruelty on account of things he sees represented.'"

Instagram Plus promises to bring users closer to the people and things that matter most to them. Perhaps, though, that closeness is a mirage—or at least incomplete. Greater insight into someone's online persona may teach us something about them. But it cannot come close to telling us everything there is to know about someone, nor about the quality of our relationship with them. For that, we need connection and communication. We need not only to observe, but to experience. And at the same time, there is so much that we simply do not need to know. There is so much to let be so that we might savor our energy and channel it into the exploration of meaningful things.