Instagram

kitty · Post by **kitty** » Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:07 pm

My apologies if this has been done, I searched but didn't find anything. I'm down to Instagram as my only regular social media, got sick of the advertising and fluff on the rest of them. Who has one?

Mine is @vwkitty. Sadly not many scooter pics, yet, but I'm working on it

Wheelz · Post by **Wheelz** » Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:10 pm

uptown89.....just getting the hang of it but I like it.

Aguacate · Post by **Aguacate** » Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:10 pm

I'm on instagram as kaupilimakoa

amy · Post by **amy** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:42 am

amygrams_

Edwub · Post by **Edwub** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:05 am

edwub

I've been MIA to study for my qualifying exam, but I was planning to get back to it afterwards. Not many pics uploaded yet, but one is a neat motorcycle

Keys · Post by **Keys** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:01 am

I've never heard of instagram

spr0k3t · Post by **spr0k3t** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:11 am

I've never understood instagram.

kitty · Post by **kitty** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:20 am

Keys wrote:I've never heard of instagram

App for iPhone, and now Android. Sadly Facebook purchased it a couple months ago and it's going downhill.

spr0k3t wrote:I've never understood instagram.

I like it much more than Facebook. I'm sick of going on FB and seeing games people are playing and news stories they're reposting and ads all over. I like that IG is plain and simple. Plus, you're not required to follow mutually, which is nice. Honestly, a lot of random people follow me, I look at their feed and there's nothing I care about. Or, they have drug pictures, and I don't follow people who post drugs.

Also, hashtags make it much more interesting. When I post a picture and tag it #scooter, I can see everything else tagged with #scooter. I like to see pictures that otherwise I never would have found.

spr0k3t · Post by **spr0k3t** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:53 am

kitty wrote:
spr0k3t wrote:I've never understood instagram.
I like it much more than Facebook... Sadly Facebook purchased it a couple months ago and it's going downhill.

The content and meat of IG sounds a lot like Google+... and I'm not a fan of faceroll/book... so I guess I'll stick with G+.

Edwub · Post by **Edwub** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:56 am

spr0k3t wrote:
kitty wrote:
spr0k3t wrote:I've never understood instagram.
I like it much more than Facebook... Sadly Facebook purchased it a couple months ago and it's going downhill.
The content and meat of IG sounds a lot like Google+... and I'm not a fan of faceroll/book... so I guess I'll stick with G+.

I didn't think I'd like Instagram at first, because of so many awful food photos ruined by silly filters, but after some time, I really do like it.

This is a great article.
http://gizmodo.com/5910223
"How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet"

I think Instagram really picked up where Flickr fell apart. And no need to have a FB/G+/etc, it can be simple and carefree. I know the article I linked above is about Yahoo's blunders, but it's still a great read and I think helps set the stage.

black sunshine · Post by **black sunshine** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 5:10 am

kyds3k on there.

joke: how much does a hipster weigh?

. . . an Instagram.

neotrotsky · Post by **neotrotsky** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:42 am

Ugh.... cannot stop hearing every iPhone user complaining how Instagram "sold out"! Of course, my wife took one look at it and said "Wow. Cheap digital filter of what my Holga camera was doing back in 2001."

I love my wife, I really do... but she out-hipsters the most underground indie-troll you will ever find at times.

scudder · Post by **scudder** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:02 am

Still trying to get the hang of it, but I am on as: scudder
Can someone explain the hashtag use on instagram?

kitty · Post by **kitty** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:35 am

neotrotsky wrote:Ugh.... cannot stop hearing every iPhone user complaining how Instagram "sold out"! Of course, my wife took one look at it and said "Wow. Cheap digital filter of what my Holga camera was doing back in 2001."

I love my wife, I really do... but she out-hipsters the most underground indie-troll you will ever find at times.

Any IG user will tell you, there's been more problems in the past two months or so since FB purchased it than there has been since the start! It was down for at least twelve hours this weekend.

And I have a Holga and still a love affair with film, in any form. I brought my Holga to Disney last time I went and boy did I get some odd looks.

I rarely use in-app filters on IG, if I do edit, it's with Camera+, but normally I'll just take pictures with Hipstamatic if I know I'm posting them on IG. I've been using Hipstamatic for so long I've learned how all the lens/film combos react and can know pretty much right away which ones I need for what. It's like pre-editing lol.

scudder wrote:Still trying to get the hang of it, but I am on as: scudder
Can someone explain the hashtag use on instagram?

It's like search keywords basically. If you post a picture and tag it #scooter, then anyone who searches for scooter will find your picture in the results. There's some crazy overused hashtags that I don't understand, like #instagood and #instamood that pop up on every photo that certain people post. If you click the hashtag it'll bring you right to whatever else was tagged with it. I find it handy, I like that I can instantly see hundreds or thousands of other pictures related to what I just posted.

So if I post my scooter, I'll typically tag it #genuinescooter #stella #scooter #powderblue

velobuff · Post by **velobuff** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:24 pm

im velobuff on instagram. i usually post pics of my girlfriend because unlike me, she makes my scooter look better (like in my avatar).

Post by **jmazza** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:40 pm

kitty wrote: Any IG user will tell you, there's been more problems in the past two months or so since FB purchased it than there has been since the start! It was down for at least twelve hours this weekend.

That was due to a large Amazon datacenter outage that also took out Pinterest and Netflix, among others.

I use Instagram only sporadically so I haven't noticed any problems since the Facebook acquisition but I really wish Twitter had bought them instead.

neotrotsky · Post by **neotrotsky** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:58 am

It seemed half of the corporate-themed internet in the US was down this weekend due to the insane storm that hit south of New England. Some of the stuff I've heard damaged is just insane!

tc8105 · Post by **tc8105** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:47 pm

im on it...

AirframeMonkey

ScootLemont · Post by **ScootLemont** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:52 pm

I was checking instagram all weekend watching the updates from comic con #sdcc
I dont post a whole lot, but i like it to follow big events

I was also using it to follow people riding to ameriveapa

I am timwall99 on instagram but i cant say my posts have been very interesting

Syd · Post by **Syd** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:47 pm

MB is my (almost) only interaction with social media. Is there an Anti social media site?

Wheelz · Post by **Wheelz** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:46 pm

Um, Syd, if it's a "site" it's prolly social even if it was an anti-social, and then, well if you want the site then your, well, being social, so you......(insert head exploding emoticon right here)

ScootLemont · Post by **ScootLemont** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 3:28 am

Syd wrote:MB is my (almost) only interaction with social media. Is there an Anti social media site?

Try myspace or AOL

Syd · Post by **Syd** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 4:48 am

ScootLemont wrote:
Syd wrote:MB is my (almost) only interaction with social media. Is there an Anti social media site?
Try myspace or AOL