Help, I'm Addicted to Instagram!
Help, I’m Addicted to Instagram!
How do you share photos today?
Facebook is surely still king, but there’s been a rather large shake up this summer as Twitter added its own integrated photo functionality. This was rather bad news for TwitPic and yFrog the former photo hosts of choice for those sharing photos on Twitter.
If you’ve used Twitter’s new photo function, now integrated into their browser and app based clients, you may have noticed the “powered by photobucket” tagline beneath your photos. Yep, that’s the same photobucket used by millions of MySpace users in the late 1800’s.
Instagram is a small social networking application in and of itself. Its users can and do follow each other, see their friends’ latest photos, “♥ Like” them, and leave comments. So it’s small wonder that Photobucket’s moving in on their territory, too.
Yep, Photobucket rolled out Snapbucket with a remarkably similar look to Instagram. It’s got a bit more flexibility editing wise, but like Google+, a social network (if that’s what these really are) is only as good as the people who are on it. No friends, no network.
Right now there are a nice sized group of users on Instagram, and if you use it as a photo-centric social networking vehicle (either integrated with Facebook & Twitter or not) it serves it’s purpose rather well. Time will tell if Snapbucket win out, and I didn’t even have time to get into Path or PicPlz.
Who or what do you take photos of?
Now all I need is a smart phone!
I really like diptic now! Fun to arrange groups!
I also use Instagram, i think it is the best and most userfriendly app in the scene. Or if sombody – like me – stores their photos maybe on flickr, there an easy way to share, too.
I’ll definitely give this a try. Sounds like fun.
It’s great, Becky. Have fun!
Nice, I used to use vfrog but have been searching around and a few people have pointed to towards Instagram so I am going to check it out.
I love Instagram too and am just now learning how to really utilize it for fun and business! I’m not sure how to follow people on the platform or to see who’s following me.
I love taking photos of my kids, my Dragonslayer, and our family activities, but have taken to snapping a few photos I think I might be able to use for stories on my websites as well. As you know, I don’t write specifically about my kids, family life, and personal life on my sites; nor, do I like to display photos of my children with their names attached (a latent habit from another life — a life before kids — but a lasting habit all the same). As I thought about this little idiosyncrasy of mine, I realized that I could use Instagram for my working websites as well. I haven’t used any of my collected images yet, but plan to do so.
What do you think? Do you think Instagram photos will have enough resolution to look good on a post?
So happy you dropped by. Let me address a couple of your questions: 1) to view your followers, who you are following and all the photos you’ve taken (or uploaded) to date, just click on the “profile” icon on the bottom right of the app’s main screen when you start it up. Instagr.am, at least at this time, is largely app based, and I’m not aware of an online (e.g. via a browser) way of managing your account. 2) Yes, the resolution should be more than adequate for use on webposts. I can recommend that you take the photo first with the smartphone’s built in (high resolution) camera and then important, crop and apply filters in the Instagr.am app to maximize quality if that’s a concern. And 3) Instagr.am should work great for your business as well as personal needs, especially as you are a big Twitter user. At this time it integrates VERY well with Twitter (add hash tags and URLs if you want), but while it does integrate with Facebook, they sometimes down-regulate other apps visibility on user walls… plus there is no way to post to a Facebook business page at this time.
Wishing you and yours, happy holidays, Samantha!
I’ve been using Diptic for a while and it’s great for grouping straight from my I phone/ Only problem is I have to pay for it!
Thanks, Amanda. I think that’s the one my wife uses. I found a couple of free ones I like pretty well, e.g. Frametastic & PicStitch. At least they were free at the time I downloaded them. Some apps start as free beta’s and then switch, so can’t guarantee they’re free still.
Thanks, Paul. I’ve played with Diptic. I think you’ll find that Instagram is far more than an image editor… it’s a social media site in it’s own right. There’s a reason Facebook just paid $1 Billion dollars for them. For editing prior to use in Instagram I often use PS Express from Photo Shop, and you might find Pixlromatic fun, too. Both are free unless you buy extras. Have a super weekend!