I am so not "getting" this Instagram thing / do you guys want to look at each others pictures?

Tried registering on this, failed all the time. Whatev.

I'm @jennyoctopad. It's a private account but I'll approve anybody who isn't spam or a terrible person. Note: I'm a bad person to follow if you hate adorable babies.

sent u a request.

otoh it is an excellent account to follow if you love adorable babies imo

REEEquested

whoamg stevie is another one to follow if you love adorable babies. !!!

my personal one is band stuff, knitting stuff and cats

haha tq tq tq carl

my instagram does not have a theme

mine is lol selfies and bullshit
@sharonjoy76

+1 on carl's babby pics btw, supercute

No babies on mine (though I do have them at home). Just random photos and enthusiasms

Classic or dude: drunk instagramming crushes 'so into u'

So crushin'

Hey y’all! I have been taking pictures and posting them to this thing. Here’s a link to my profile: http://shoutkey.com/drawbridge

If a thing happens and isn't shared, did it really happen?

love this:

http://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/2015/09/03/062/n/1922398/f0797db83ff59d41_Screen_Shot_2015-09-03_at_5.28.58_PMHQDGsB.xxxlarge/i/Waking-up-10-m-get-perfect-light.jpg

http://www.popsugar.com/tech/Hipster-Barbie-Instagram-Account-38303127#photo-38303127

love it

Can we start the igram backlash yet?

on public transportation in nyc, people are inevitably looking at either igram or fbook

I've said it elsewhere, but the new Instagram location feature is the best.

Here's the Reno Walmart, one of the nearest box stores to #burningman.

http://i.imgur.com/P51hsho.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/UYGE3JM.png

http://i.imgur.com/lXFrqVP.jpg

What's new about the location feature?

You couldn't search it before.

You could click a location if you saw it on a pic, but you couldn't query it.

way too many ads now :/

I haven't seen a single one yet

what? how

I see sponsored post ads, but some of the folks I follow on Instagram are basically posting ads anyway (but they are ones I want to see)-- just for DC go-go gigs, New Orleans brass ones, afrobeat/afropop dj nights, etc.

I get a ton of ads now. never used to until a couple months back maybe.

kind of getting done with instagram i think.

and there's only so many times I can share photos of my cat, weird graffiti, sunset over the ocean, or some mountains.

I've never seen an ad on the 'stagram

hmm. wonder what the reason behind some of us getting ads and others not. im on android.

these are all in my feed within the last 12 hours
http://i63.tinypic.com/e9ck1w.jpg

maybe a function of how many followers or posts or followers you have. I have under 10 of all of those. iPhone.

*people you follow

Sidestepping from the advert discussion, a thriller series is playing uniquely on Instagram this month via 15-second video posts each day, plus accompanying photos... http://www.shield5.com

i have iPhone and a few hundred posts/followers/following.

Plenty of adverts here, but they're not too obnoxious yet.

Instagram advertising is a straightforward option when making Facebook adverts and sponsored/boosted posts nowadays. Tried it once so far as an experiment, but Instagram still works well organically, so we haven't found the need yet.

How I (Almost) Made Big Money Working From Home Promoting Products on Instagram

this is probably the first major trend that I managed to miss entirely before everyone was not only on it but already in backlash
i kinda hate primary visually oriented communication.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGKzgF5AROq/

it's over, right? all the people i follow are posting way less

https://www.theinformation.com/sharing-decline-blurs-instagrams-picture

def a lot less posting of late.

Today's snap is tomorrow's Instagram post.

I think the bigger scale of Snapchat's images doesn't get noted enough. A snap photo has to be cropped to fit on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and so on, keeping a Snap photo from being interchangeable on other platforms.

the number of photos shared on average by each Instagram user fell

Weird wording there. When I think of "share", I think of what you do on Facebook with someone else's content or retweeting something on Twitter.

People "post" their photos on Instagram, and I get the idea what the writer is saying. There's a share button, but I rarely, rarely ever see it used by anyone.

Under 21 folks I know seem to mostly just use snapchat.

Music geeks keep posting pics and video clips of gigs on Instagram as well as via other social media outlets

Anyone know if you can upload to instagram from your laptop? I've found a few software packages on google but thought I'd check if any of you have used them first.

The new non-chronologic algorithm combined with an explosion of ads in my feed (every 2-3 pix?) pretty much turned me off of IG.

I usually scroll down until I hit one that I've already seen.

So now with the new algorithm, I hardly spend any time at all on Instagram!

That article also links to an article saying that facebook users have been sharing less of their personal lives, which is an interesting development that accords with my observations -- people have gotten a lot more selective inasmuch as there's no longer any novelty to just saying whatever the fuck you're doing/eating/thinking right now.

Had a recent FB request from *takes a deep breath* the father of the mother of my daughter's best friend, the kid's maternal grandfather.