Why do people use Instagram?

bobbyss · 03-09-2022 12:16pm #1

I think Instagram is a good way to communicate with the world. That is good for some people. Maybe you have something to contribute and want to share. Some ideas. Some events. Whatever.

Sending pictures of your holidays? The food you eat and so on? Come on!

Would you post your holiday picture?

o1s1n · 03-09-2022 12:19pm

Bring back the days where businesses had actual websites and didn't rely on social media please.

Nothing worse than wanting to look up a business and finding out they only communicate over Instagram or Facebook.

Mister Vain · 03-09-2022 3:58pm

I use it for photography but its a bit of a mess now with the reels. It's more focused on videos these days.

Gregor Samsa · 03-09-2022 4:09pm

Someone I know uses it for promoting their comic artwork, and has made a lot of industry contacts and been involved in a number of projects and collaborations through it, not to mention having a good number of regular followers. It’s been a very successful tool for them.

I’m into photography (nature, macro, astro), and while that was Instagram’s original purpose, I find it an unholy mess and just can’t deal with using it. I much prefer being part of specific photography groups on FB, or specialist web forums.

Padre_Pio · 03-09-2022 4:17pm

It started as a photography app and a visual blog platform, which it still kind of is.

I used it for a while to share photos I really liked. I would take plenty of photos day to day. Most are sh*te, but the best would go to Instagram. It was a quick way to get updates on particular people or hobbies. A picture tells a thousand words.

It's become a Tik-Tok rival now with reels and videos and insta-famous people sharing the same mindless derivations of some trend. I stopped using it maybe a year back as there's no way to filter out Instagrams algorithm. The content creators that I liked started tailoring content for the algorithm and hawking VPNs, fitness gear, and website builders. It's sad but YouTube is going in the same direction with YouTube Shorts.

All the social media platforms are just rife with advertising with everyone pushing sponsored products. I'm getting sick of them all.

vafankillar · 03-09-2022 4:23pm

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what was so great about websites? usually just mean a contact number & having to ring & listen for options to dial from a machine then listen to **** while being told your call is very important to them

Strumms · 03-09-2022 4:39pm

Loved Instagram, but I’m a big fan of photography so no surprises

ive started to not like it so much, thanks to the fact that around 20-25 of every 100 photos in your feed, are advertising..simply boring…and constantly being bombarded with suggested pages to follow who are businesses…or sponsored or whatever terminology.

bobbyss · 03-09-2022 7:38pm

What prompted me to start this post was Conor McGregor.

I saw some pictures of him in Marbella/ Spain/Italy/The Costa Whatever.

He was walking around bare-chested. The little fella was full of swagger. The Prince of Narcissism.

I thought to myself why is a man posting a picture of himself bare chested? I just don't get it.

This is obnoxious.

completedit · 03-09-2022 7:42pm

We live in obnoxious times.

Instagram is shite. It has none of the sociability that Facebook once had, it purely exists as a picture bate and like app. That's all there is to it. I've only ever used it to project an image to thr world, that can have good and bad motivations but that's all it has ever been about.

Strumms · 03-09-2022 9:57pm

lots of excellent content just the Twitter attention seekers and businesses hooked their fangs into it and it’s not as good as it was…now I’m seeing Instagram are discussing their app and reels in terms of ‘leveraging’, ‘promotion’, ‘branded content’……this on actual Instagram posts to its users ffs.

just sharing photos, enjoying your friends content and visa versa, that’s what made Instagram… when it had no agenda and was fun , now like Twitter, it’s just full of pricks promoting things, a promotion, whoring and attention seeking platform instead of a photography platform…no longer as enjoyable….

AllForIt · 03-09-2022 10:06pm

People use Instagram for self promotion. Which is why I wouldn't use it as a photo sharing app.

In fact there is no good photo sharing app. The're all cr*p.

Ubbquittious · 03-09-2022 10:08pm

I miss the old internet. DeviantArt, Nexopia, IRC chat rooms, usenet groups. None of this sh1te with filters and dolled up chungwans looking to drive traffic to their onlyfans.

gary550 · 03-09-2022 10:39pm

I started using it for photography years and years back when it was actually decent, now it's full of shite.

The shorts was the start of the decline, now with reels it's a bit too overwhelming and addicting.

Not to mention everyone had turned into big vain droids who only ever post the same "ooo look at me" shite.

completedit · 03-09-2022 10:44pm

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It was always that but in the beginning it was cool trendy and novel. Now we've had 10 years of it give or take. It's old hat.

Strumms · 03-09-2022 10:47pm

The reels are piss, worst idea ever….

completedit · 03-09-2022 11:11pm

No idea what it's like for someone under 25 or whatever(probably more like under 20) but people also became way more cynical about social media as the decade progressed. The whole point of these apps was about connection but people then came to the realisation that they had no interest in seeing what somebody they were in school with who they haven't spoken to in 10 years is doing. That meant that they had to provide another niche which was basically exploiting our consumerism and self-hatred which is why its full of fitness and entrepreneurship and makeup tutorials.

And also a good meme is hilarious but the mainstreaming of memes has killed them imo. I miss the og ones.

thedart · 03-09-2022 11:13pm

I use the gram to show off my boobies.

No wait I didn’t say that.

JP Liz V1 · 03-09-2022 11:26pm

It's for "influencers" now mostly

Quantum Erasure · 03-09-2022 11:30pm

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the mainstreaming of memes has killed them. I miss the og ones.

you mean like "kilroy wos 'ere" and this cool S ?

or like og og memes, like religion, and dance

Quantum Erasure · 03-09-2022 11:37pm

how much does a hipster weigh?

an instagram

Quantum Erasure · 03-09-2022 11:39pm

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there's a business idea...

Strumms · 04-09-2022 1:16am

Google in 2020 was worth $1210 Billion.

why it just couldn’t leave Instagram alone, for people who enjoy it… just wanted a popular platform to interject advertising to.. make ££$$££$$££$$££$$

Quantum Erasure · 04-09-2022 1:25am

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thedart · 04-09-2022 1:29am

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Google wants the action

-=al=- · 04-09-2022 1:32am

Just turned into TikTok. I use it less and less these days it's pretty toxic carry on. I do still update personal page with pretty holiday pictures and things nothing to serious, and it's useful for business pages, but the less time I spend on it the better. I do use it more than facebook now, which is part of why Facebook bought it

wotzgoingon · 04-09-2022 1:36am

I have a instagram account but I never uploaded anything to it ever and I get notifications every so often such as username started following you which I have no idea why they just follow me.

I go on it to look at the hot women.

thedart · 04-09-2022 1:40am

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You like my boobies?

Padre_Pio · 04-09-2022 1:48am

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I use it to show off my boobies too.

Then my girlfriend called me a fat b*stard and gave me a gym membership.

wotzgoingon · 04-09-2022 1:53am

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I'll show you my titties if you show me yours.

riclad · 04-09-2022 3:00am

You can avoid YouTube shorts simply by not clicking on them, Instagram is simply trying to copy tiktok, by showing videos , reels, of course influencers are promoting merch or brands that's how they make money,

So it's no longer good as a photo app Instagram is owned by Facebook, not Google

. I just watch the channels I subscribe to on YouTube, and ignore shorts.

Facebook is losing users it simply hopes it can copy tiktok to hold onto young users or its simply desperate even if it turns off people who simply want to post photos

Mister Vain · 04-09-2022 8:17am

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Did you see the video he posted where his missus appears to be giving him head on the yacht?

04-09-2022 11:36am

It's a complete load of shite.

04-09-2022 2:00pm

I find Instagram the best social media app. Facebook and Twitter show you stuff you don't want to see because of sharing/retweeting, and people's likes showing on Twitter/their comments showing on Facebook.

Instagram does none of that.

Larbre34 · 04-09-2022 2:02pm

Its a clean UX.

Works well for business and semi-pros, not so much for private individuals.

sasco · 05-09-2022 3:56pm

The reels and advertising have turned it totally crap, but it was getting fairly poor even before.

Strumms · 05-09-2022 4:00pm

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Really has, it was perfect before they started messing with it.

For Forks Sake · 05-09-2022 7:46pm

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Instagram's owned by Meta/Facebook

Strumms · 05-09-2022 7:48pm

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Ahh my bad, they be worth a paltry 430 billion in comparison 😜

iamstop · 06-09-2022 8:26pm

I have 3 insta accounts.

1 for records and beer with some day to day shots of scenes and interesting art I come across. I also use this one to post about up coming or gigs I'm currently doing. This is the account I use most to message people with too.
1 for selling records. During the pandemic I was delivering records to people's doors because record stores were closed. This account is almost not used now.
1 account for my more professional amateur photography. I only post thinks shot with my DSLR on this account.

Count Dracula · 06-09-2022 10:59pm

I quite enjoy leering at the pictures of all the twentysomething women who make a living participating in Scat games with filthy rich Arabs in Dubai, whilst pretending to the world (and their mothers) that they got the money for all their expensive jewellery, dresses and bikinis from acting or modelling with a local previously unheard of PR agency.

I particularly enjoy their group photos, which they take with all their "friends", whilst standing in some overpriced restaurant which actually acts as a front for Russian mafia money laundering projects. They all look so viable sitting in front of a €300 lobster that they will have no idea how to eat properly when they eventually sit their overused arses down and pretend to know how to.

A picture tells many stories.

JP Liz V1 · 07-09-2022 1:52am

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Is Instagram down?

I love the food pics

Strumms · 07-09-2022 2:05am

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Businesses want and demand an IN into every facet of our lives. There is zero refuge.

Instagram was one of the last refuges where you could enjoy something on its merits… but sadly now it’s as corrupted.

Everything I’ve bought online and every retailer who I’ve purchased from now almost weekly hits me with advertising into my email….thankfully I’ve redirected everything into spam / junk….

looking now at my email…various clothing labels x6, supermarket x2 , a sports retailer, Amazon, a pharmacy, cinema, music store, electronics retailer x2,

so about 15-20 emails per week… 80+ per month…over 1000 emails a year that are unsolicited, inconsequential, of no use, interest or anything close…

every magazine you buy is packed with pages of advertising, add inserts etc, newspapers the same…

07-09-2022 9:31pm

I never used instagram,facebook,or twitter.Its all I can do to keep up with boards.

AMKC · 07-09-2022 9:34pm

I just use it to search for interesting people and dome famous people. It's gotten worse lately do and I have thought about dropping it but decided not yet.

07-09-2022 9:41pm

They announced recently that they plan on adding even more unwanted nonsense to timelines.

pgj2015 · 07-09-2022 10:30pm

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhGnPAbrXmw

These Sissy's should be sent to Ukraine.

Dramatik · 09-09-2022 12:34pm

I mean it is what you make of it, don't follow bellends and you won't get a bunch of crap on your timeline. I will say though I've had a few people catch me out, when they realised that I didn't follow them back and confronted me about it. Amazing how butt hurt some people get over a follow on an app but it's the reason why I've never seen:

Baby pics

Food pics

Drunk with friends pics

in my feed.

rob316 · 09-09-2022 12:45pm

Full of pretentious ****. Influencers are the scourge of the internet preying on people insecurities for financial gain.

I remember when you could build a brand or business on facebook but then it just turned into an advertising platform.

Why do people use Instagram?

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