Tag: instagram
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The Increasingly Long Reel and Endless Scrolling
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I looked at Instagram and I noticed that almost all of the “content” is vertical videos. When I look at Facebook and TikTok I notice the same thing. Yesterday I noticed that Bluesky were promoting that they have ten minute videos. I think all of these people have forgotten that we’re…
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On Instagram Becoming Obsolete
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor many years I would go for a hike, a via ferrata, scuba diving and more and I would take photos. I would then share them on Instagram to friends, colleagues and family. Facebook then bought Instagram and within a few months it went from being a social network built around our…
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The Symbiosis of Influencers and Social Media
Reading Time: 3 minutesThreads, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok are social media sites and apps rather than social networks. Their aim is not to promote conversations but rather to encourage likes, re-sharing and the cult of personality. It is for this reason that they have become less ‘sticky’ for normal ‘users’. In the era of Seesmic…
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On Instagram’s Video Saturation
Reading Time: 2 minutesA day or two I opened the Instagram app and I scrolled down without seeing a single photo so I deleted the app from my phone. There was a time when instagram was a photo sharing network between friends, and friends of friends. Now it has become a video spamming platform for…
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Instagram and Net Neutrality
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen videos are older, or are not viewed often their quality will be downgraded until they are either viewed regularly or never at all. This decision showstype: posts that Instagram is forgetting that it should promote net neutrality rather than a two tier system where influencers get the red carpet, and normal…
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The Fallacy of Please Like and Subscribe
Reading Time: 4 minutesOver the years I have subscribed to hundreds of podcasts, YouTube channels, people on Instagram TikTok and more. I then stopped subscribing, and sometimes like, but never when I’m asked to by the content creators. The short reason for not liking and subscribing now is that if I subscribe I usually grow…
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Instagram Limits for Teens
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I read from [Techcrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/30/instagram-adds-a-teen-protection-tool-to-limit-interaction-to-close-friends/) and [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/30/24167259/instagram-limit-posts-everyone-but-close-friends) that there are new tools to limit things so that people can only get comments from friends and family. The irony isn’t lost on me. The irony I’m thinking about is that we have built a social media landscape where the content from strangers…
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Dormant Social Media Life While Sorting Through Drives
Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently my Social Media Life has become dormant. I do visit Facebook every so often but I ignore Instagram, barely touch Mastodon or the fediverse, and in general have stopped looking at social media for a social life. It’s not that my life offline has become vibrant. It’s that online is empty…
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Asking for Permission on Instagram
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you want to see how unhealthy social media is just look at this story about DMs on Instagram. Now if you want to DM someone that you don’t follow they can send just one text message. Imagine, you’re a user of Instagram. You’re following friends, family and colleagues. Now consider that…
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The Paradox of Instagram’s Twitter
Reading Time: 3 minutesWithin the last two days I saw a headline that is either amusing or tragic. The headline is that Instagram is creating a twitter clone, or even a Twitter competitor. This is amusing, or tragic, because Twitter and Facebook have always been competitors. You had the network of strangers that became friends,…