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> What is Instagram removing from that process to make sharing more simple? You mentioned three steps. 1) > I take a picture with my phone 2) > I click on th

by barredo 15y ago

> What is Instagram removing from that process to make sharing more simple? You mentioned three steps. 1) > I take a picture with my phone 2) > I click on the share button 3) > pick where I want to share (Facebook, Twitter, email, text) With Instagram 1) take the picture Done, filters are optional, and the sharing is built in. Also, reducing the size (to i think... 600*600 pixels or so) makes it incredibly fast to upload even in crappy edge/gprs networks.

tatsuke95 15y ago
So the posting to Facebook/Twitter/whatever is done automatically, one-click? I can see that being appealing and simplifying things some. But I'd hardly call the old process cumbersome.
- jewbacca 15y ago
  The difference between one thing (the primary thing) and three things is massive. Especially if this involves dropping out of a social situation, even for a few seconds, to do it.
glanch 15y ago
Uh, what? I don't even get to decide whether or not the photo is worth sharing after I take it? That's actually worse.
- larrywright 15y ago
  No, you can in fact discard the picture you took. What OP is saying is that it's one button to share to as many different social networks (plus email) as you want. It sounds minor, but it really is much more convenient.
- davidw 15y ago
  My guess (I don't use it either - I can't stand the stupid filters), is that if you fire up Instagram, instead of the regular camera app, you'd know that it's going to automatically share everything you take.
- c1sc0 15y ago
  I guess it's a matter of intent: if I already know I'll want to share the pic I'm about to take I just fire up Instagram, otherwise I use the standard camera app. On a related note: the Google+ Instant Upload feature does even 'better'. From the G+ website: "All photos and videos taken with your mobile device are uploaded to the From your phone album. These photos and videos are only visible to you unless you share them." That's even more frictionless sharing, but not in a way I like: it freaked me out when I inadvertently turned this on.
  - UnFleshedOne 15y ago
    That actually sounds reasonable -- you can log-in, decide which photos you want to share and delete the rest. Unless you don't like it using bandwidth or don't like google itself having access to all your stuff.
    - c1sc0 15y ago
      It's the latter, but I guess in this world of clouds soon I won't have the option of just keeping things on my device alone.
- mladenkovacevic 15y ago
  Didn't you read the article? Damn the worth! We're all unique snowflake rockstars and all our meals and coffee mugs are blessed by our specialness. Share all the pictures!! (insert crazy meme guy with a paintbrush) Join the photo revolution man.
  - Lockyy 15y ago
    It's a girl. It's a brush. It's from Hyperbole and a Half.[1] It's the overly used image that bothers me most because that person needs the traffic and their image is pretty popular yet they never get accreditation for it. [1] http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/this-is-why-...
    - mladenkovacevic 15y ago
      Omg that is hilarious. Like a billion times more hilarious than a funny but mindless "it's hilarious because everyone is in on it" meme. Thanks for pointing me in that direction. Ironically this is relevant to the discussion. Memes are kind of like Instagram (I imagine there are other similar phenomenons). They share the instant gratification of a trigger-like social connection between a huge mass of people, but lack all the fulfillment and self-discovery that REAL content can bring. But it's really not surprising that things like Instagram and memes thrive in the digial-social space. Most people will generally get a much higher response to a "MY CAT HAZ GLASSES!" fake polaroid, then to share something like "Hi all my friends, I read this insightful 5 page article on adulthood and I think you all might get something out of it too." It sort of reflects a broader-scale problem with people just not having time (or not wanting to bother) with discussing things like sex, politics, art, religion, relationships... They'd rather just share some Ha-Has, small talk and get drunk. I think this is especially pronounced in North America and in large urban centers.
sajid 15y ago
The small photo size was a key optimisation. Like you say, it means super quick uploads. Which means that users share more photos than they otherwise would have done.
jack-r-abbit 15y ago
I've disliked Instagram even before it hit Andriod so I've never seen how the app works. When you take the picture, does it upload automatically or do you have to actively share it? Because if it uploads automatically, then I think that is not good (for me anyway). If the crap filters (and previously being iOS only) weren't already keeping me away from Instagram, that feature surely would. But if you have to hit some sort of "share" button then you now have 2 steps which is not greatly more simple than what I do already without it. Since most of the Instagram pics that cross my stream have something written with them, I assumed there was a step after "take the picture". shrug to each their own though.

by barredo 15y ago

tatsuke95 15y ago

So the posting to Facebook/Twitter/whatever is done automatically, one-click? I can see that being appealing and simplifying things some. But I'd hardly call the old process cumbersome.

jewbacca 15y ago
The difference between one thing (the primary thing) and three things is massive. Especially if this involves dropping out of a social situation, even for a few seconds, to do it.

glanch 15y ago

Uh, what? I don't even get to decide whether or not the photo is worth sharing after I take it? That's actually worse.

larrywright 15y ago
No, you can in fact discard the picture you took. What OP is saying is that it's one button to share to as many different social networks (plus email) as you want. It sounds minor, but it really is much more convenient.
davidw 15y ago
My guess (I don't use it either - I can't stand the stupid filters), is that if you fire up Instagram, instead of the regular camera app, you'd know that it's going to automatically share everything you take.
c1sc0 15y ago
I guess it's a matter of intent: if I already know I'll want to share the pic I'm about to take I just fire up Instagram, otherwise I use the standard camera app. On a related note: the Google+ Instant Upload feature does even 'better'. From the G+ website: "All photos and videos taken with your mobile device are uploaded to the From your phone album. These photos and videos are only visible to you unless you share them." That's even more frictionless sharing, but not in a way I like: it freaked me out when I inadvertently turned this on.
- UnFleshedOne 15y ago
  That actually sounds reasonable -- you can log-in, decide which photos you want to share and delete the rest. Unless you don't like it using bandwidth or don't like google itself having access to all your stuff.
  - c1sc0 15y ago
    It's the latter, but I guess in this world of clouds soon I won't have the option of just keeping things on my device alone.
mladenkovacevic 15y ago
Didn't you read the article? Damn the worth! We're all unique snowflake rockstars and all our meals and coffee mugs are blessed by our specialness. Share all the pictures!! (insert crazy meme guy with a paintbrush) Join the photo revolution man.
- Lockyy 15y ago
  It's a girl. It's a brush. It's from Hyperbole and a Half.[1] It's the overly used image that bothers me most because that person needs the traffic and their image is pretty popular yet they never get accreditation for it. [1] http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/this-is-why-...
  - mladenkovacevic 15y ago
    Omg that is hilarious. Like a billion times more hilarious than a funny but mindless "it's hilarious because everyone is in on it" meme. Thanks for pointing me in that direction. Ironically this is relevant to the discussion. Memes are kind of like Instagram (I imagine there are other similar phenomenons). They share the instant gratification of a trigger-like social connection between a huge mass of people, but lack all the fulfillment and self-discovery that REAL content can bring. But it's really not surprising that things like Instagram and memes thrive in the digial-social space. Most people will generally get a much higher response to a "MY CAT HAZ GLASSES!" fake polaroid, then to share something like "Hi all my friends, I read this insightful 5 page article on adulthood and I think you all might get something out of it too." It sort of reflects a broader-scale problem with people just not having time (or not wanting to bother) with discussing things like sex, politics, art, religion, relationships... They'd rather just share some Ha-Has, small talk and get drunk. I think this is especially pronounced in North America and in large urban centers.

sajid 15y ago

The small photo size was a key optimisation. Like you say, it means super quick uploads. Which means that users share more photos than they otherwise would have done.

jack-r-abbit 15y ago

I've disliked Instagram even before it hit Andriod so I've never seen how the app works. When you take the picture, does it upload automatically or do you have to actively share it? Because if it uploads automatically, then I think that is not good (for me anyway). If the crap filters (and previously being iOS only) weren't already keeping me away from Instagram, that feature surely would. But if you have to hit some sort of "share" button then you now have 2 steps which is not greatly more simple than what I do already without it. Since most of the Instagram pics that cross my stream have something written with them, I assumed there was a step after "take the picture". shrug to each their own though.