Instagram is a wonderful app. It's positive. It allows people to share photos of their life - yes, it's "fake" but so were (and are) family photo albums. Yes, it has tons of celebrities, but we crave that, too. I don't think it much matters at this point who owns it, it has its own purpose and meaning. I love it.
I can share photos -- carefully composed, edited, captioned pictures of things that I find interesting or important -- on Facebook. Sharing badly taken snaps of celebrities or clothes or meals or pets on Instagram or Snapchat seems like a waste of time to me. It’s all right for teens, I suppose, but I’m an adult, so I have no desire to impress shallow nitwits with my coolness. As for ideas, Twitter's letter count limitation makes it useless for anything other than tidbits of news or opinion. I can’t use it to express worthwhile thoughts that require any degree of explanation or justification. Even this brief paragraph exceeds Twitter's limit by more than triple. Facebook is a superior platform for both written and visual communication.
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It's a real shame that something that started off charmingly humble and real has been poisoned by 'A-list' celebrities and their acolytes, paid influencers and corporate shills. I had to delete my account it got so bad. I have little doubt that it's why Systrom and Kreiger left.
I'm sure there's another platform out there that captures that same goofy, happy-go-lucky feeling of fun that IG originally gave me. Now it's just a matter of finding it.
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One thing is not mentioned and that is all the artists and craftsmen on all levels, who show their paintings, collages, drawings, stitchings and make communities thanks to IG !
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I'm so far ahead of the adoption curve that I'm already ignoring Instagram's replacement. Feels good to be in the technical vanguard.
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While I'm all for pretty pictures and staying connected, what I find objectionable is that so many posts seem as if they are intended to inspire envy, consumption, or a combination of the two.
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Valued at 100 billion????? And people listen to these people?
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@Scott D Yup