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I don't know why this fixation with Instagram or Pinterest. There's nothing new on photos. We're doing this since the 50's. You had 36 exposures per roll to te
by hcarvalhoalves 14y ago
I don't know why this fixation with Instagram or Pinterest.
There's nothing new on photos. We're doing this since the 50's. You had 36 exposures per roll to tell a story, then make a photo album or a series of slides. And you had to make each photo count. Given with Instagram is so easy to upload a photo, it's actually a bad exercise in storytelling: it's full of mundane pics of people shooting themselves at the bathroom mirror.
I'm can't reason why Pinterest is in this article either. A big portion of the content on their site is not original, just products and wishlists.
- batiudrami 14y agoI actually find Instagram is the opposite - because every photo shows up as its own 'story', people use more discretion in what they upload. There are Facebook albums filled with hundreds of photos of parties and people dressed up going out, but that's not really what Instragram is about. YMMV, of course, and as with all social media, depends on the people you follow.
- andrewcooke 14y agoi suspect it's a rhetorical question, but the reason for the fixation, and the reason for mentioning pinterest, is likely just money. it's a business. someone has a deadline. someone else wrote a press release. and then some idiot on hn voted it up...