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

Private profile is essential

I'm on this thing now, follow @cocktailsandfood for pictures of cats

I just got my first follower, a dude in a band I like

totally addicted to this shit

im @datpurp666 and my place is @thepoisonlawn and my band is @argentinumastrum

Follow request sent. I'm @sm_cal.

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.