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Interesting. Most of the people I know on it post less than on Facebook and there's a much higher ratio of other photos to selfies/screenshots compared to other
by wlesieutre 9y ago
Interesting. Most of the people I know on it post less than on Facebook and there's a much higher ratio of other photos to selfies/screenshots compared to other social networks. I only post a couple times a month when I feel like I have a photo worth posting.
As more people move over from mainline Facebook and Facebook adds more Facebooky features to Instagram, I expect it will get less useful for this. There's also not a lot of timeline control, so you do end up with situations where someone goes on a trip and suddenly you have 20 posts in a row from a single person at Disneyland.
I suppose if you're using it as an all-purpose social network and trying to maintain a persona, the inability to post anything other than pictures applies a lot of pressure to always have exciting new pictures to post.
- startupflix 9y agoI guess they might be working on a post-status-as-a-picture feature.
- wlesieutre 9y agoWouldn't be surprised. Something akin to Facebook's "short status in large text on a colorful background". Bummer for me though, the lack of that kind of content is the single main reason I like Instagram. Making you come up with a photo worth sharing added enough friction to posting that people slowed down and only posted when they had something to post. As compared to Facebook where you can just be constantly status updating and sharing links, etc. The one thing that I want it to do is take the big bursts of activity from a single user and collapse them into 1-2 posts and then "Expand 18 more posts from Bob...", but I'm not holding my breath. More likely they'll try for a fancy machine learning solution that's less predictable from a user perspective, but probably sells more ads because I'm scrolling through it trying to find where it put something.
- RandallBrown 9y agoThat's what Instagram Stories are.
- wlesieutre 9y agoNot nearly intrusive enough! Give it a year and stories will also show up in your timeline.
- startupflix 9y agoAlso, don't forget about the 'race' to get more and more likes on the post.
- wlesieutre 9y agoOh right, that and comment threads. I turned off notifications and honestly forgot it has all that.
- startupflix 9y agoAlso the tags.
- DarkTree 9y agoPeople post fewer photos, but that shouldn't be confused with having less of an influence on social culture. Now each post carries much more weight, and therefor is more heavily curated to show that person's perfect life. It goes further than that though. I know people who wait for a specific hour on Sunday to post their weekly photo because they know that most people check their instagram then and therefor will get them the most likes. In fact people are going on more adventures and trying more restaurants, which we can argue is a net positive, but it really taints the experience and makes it hard for me to support when so much of the motivation for doing so revolves around taking that perfect picture to share on instagram. I try not to be a counter-culture cynical critic, but dang.