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

ah, it looks like they're loosely organized by follower count, but beyond that it just seems like a random sampling of profiles

that doesn't look like a page that makes any logical sense, like it was someone proofing out api calls or it used to do something different but for some reason is still live

lot of people who would have been big facebook users have definitely migrated over to instagram in the past year. getting a lot more facebooky content these days

Instagram seems to be down.

seems like there are some photos from people i follow that never show up on my timeline now. i even got an "x just posted for the first time in a while!" notification for a photo that was never on the timeline. i could only see it by going to that person's own instagram page. i've mostly noticed it for people who have private accounts.

I still don’t understand Instagram

It's a mobile phone application that allows users to gram instantly

grammin’ and stealin’

love instagram

Since realising that I have a complete lack of visual memory / imagination (aphantasia) I've come to a very different understanding of how I use instagram - it IS my visual memory, basically. I look at my own pictures far more than I look at other people's. I also appreciate the simplicity of it.

It could be a personal thing, but I think Instagram has developed my visual sense. You start following some things you're really interested in: art galleries, asian and indian antiquities, exotic mediterranean holiday locations, pedigree cats, celebrity crushes etc - and after repeated attempts you start being able instinctively appreciate and critique the visual elements.

people who habitually check for your story but never like anything on your tl 🤔

extremely rude behaviour

I can't really get with the story thing. I had to get someone to show me how they even work a couple of months back (I would've asked my daughters but I don't think I could have dealt with the level of eye-rolling) and I've never posted one. Maybe it's a bit too ephemeral? Or I don't have a story. I just use IG as a semi-social photo archive. The bar is a bit lower than for images I'd post to Flickr and I rarely instantly post from my phone. Also, it's not a public account. I've probably been getting IG wrong for four years now.

i dont do stories but i watch a lot of stories of ppl i follow

there is a small trend with a few ppl i follow who turn screen grab of paragraphs of text from news articles/interviews into instagram stories and it needs to STOP
put it on insta proper! i can’t read the whole thing in that short amt of time.

it’s so stupid

also don’t put up landscape footage bcz it appears sideways, u dummies

you can pause the stories by pressing them; probably easier to read long text that way

omg thx

i didnt know that

i didn't know that either -- i just kept wondering how people could expect anyone to read that much text in like 15 seconds

right!?

people who habitually check for your story but never like anything on your tl 🤔

I've got someone who doesn't follow me at all but is constantly watching my stories which is even weirder imo. They're actively checking out my profile every day. :/

I would normally consider it creepy behaviour but I know this person irl and it's mostly mystifying why they wouldn't just follow me if they're that interested.

I watch every story when i decide to watch stories

They all play in a row like youtube. A follower watching ur story everyday just means they are watching stories

Problem is the vast majority of stories are just like people walking their dog, or sharing some interesting looking garbage, or some badly lit shaking video of last night’s dinner

I started an instagram account to post short clips of myself playing guitar and singing. The only purpose of it is really to gradually get myself over my aversion to singing for people, which is a complicated childhood thing. I'm not playing any shows or recording anything so I have nothing to promote. It's kind of good for that -- I don't have to get a "perfect take" just a good-enough sounding 30 seconds of a song, and I can post it and get instant reassurance that I sound ok. I like using it also to see friends' music and visual art stuff.

That's about all I find it useful for, I find the visual diary aspect boring. In the iphone era everyone takes nice photos of food and picturesque city streets and hiking trails and stuff and it all becomes very samey.

My instagram tried to be more eclectic—i use it to document my experience of the city, strange things i notice or stuff i find visually interesting. I love instagram.

Yeah I will sometimes throw in stuff like that, in part just so that my account's visual impression isn't just a wall of very similar images of me facing the camera with a guitar.

Not saying my photos are good but i just think its fun

I’m barely in my photos

i'll follow u if you want to post or email me your handle

I’ll email u bc it’s my government name. I’ll follow you as well

I'm into posting memes, screen captures of Twitter tweets, album covers of the vinyl I'm currently listening to, screen captures of Facebook posts and my dog, sitting in the exact same position next to my desk as he has in all my insta posts.

Still can't get that protein shake endorsement deal though.

it is better than facebook

and the clap is better than syphilis

ha! for the time being I am appreciating having a place to share art & some photos and see friends’ art, crafts, & photos without all the other bullshit on fb. ig has its own weird culture though. still I find it less depressing than twitter, tumblr, or fb. tumblr is ghost town, what a sad decline

now the favored tool of Russian misinformation

https://www.wired.com/story/how-instagram-became-russian-iras-social-network/

In a world where people will drive blindfolded into oncoming traffic because of a film they saw this may not top the scale of stupidity. Still, why would anyone want to pay $165 for a creativity workshop by someone who had to pull out of a $500,000 book deal because she couldn't actually write the book? Spoiler: the workshop was a disaster.

http://www.pajiba.com/web_culture/the-case-of-caroline-calloway-and-her-creativity-workshop-tour.php

tyvm

what's up w/ accounts that somehow have 15k followers on a meager 40-50 posts of garbage, yet are neither celebrities nor obvious bots? are they just bots?

bots posting to bots

shitbots

They probably have been around forever and have purged a shit ton of shit posts

yes that too

An 11-year-old friend of my daughter's has racked up 1,300 followers on TikTok.

:/

A bunch of bots liked one of my posts for some reason. Usernames like kate___allen4568 and no profile pic

Meanwhile in Chernobyl: Instagram influencers flocking to the site of the disaster. pic.twitter.com/LnRukoLirQ

— Bruno Zupan (@komacore) June 9, 2019

that's fucking horrifying

Chinese ladies going Instagram crazy in the park. Whooooo!

what content/meme accounts do y’all like

@puppycodes - not as hi-freq as it used to be but seriously GOAT curation, mix of animal memes and gross-horny

@codependantpapi - bit ‘edgy’ at times but sometimes fucking funny. super hi frequency so u have to be sparing with favs

@erowidexperiencevaults - stories are impeccably curated to give the ‘we live in end times’ vibe