Is Instagram becoming the butt of
jokes? I recently saw a promo for the hit comedy show “Two Broke Girls” and one
of the actresses made a comment about Instagram being like Twitter for people
who can’t read. Comical and seemingly true! You can tell which photos on social
media news feeds were taken with Instagram because they look cheap. The filters
do not enhance the photography. Instead they attempt to mask the imperfections
of the picture with corny color treatments, blur spots and borders. Please stop
using the ridiculous after-affects!
Instagram bills itself as photo
sharing, reinvented. So, families can share photos of their children with their
friends and photographers can showcase their work. However, just because
Instagram is a new concept for an app doesn’t mean it is worthwhile. There are
many photo sharing websites that are worthwhile, however not quite as instant.
After all, you have to wait until you get to your home computer or laptop to
upload the photos into an album, but is that such a terrible price to pay if
your sole purpose is to share photos with others? This is why Instagram has
been likened to Twitter because it is almost instantaneous. Simply take a photo
with your phone, add a silly filter that makes the picture look very phony, and
post to all social media platforms. You are essentially showing off where you
are and what you are doing. However, I wonder if the novelty of Instagram has reached
the point of saturation in the marketplace. There is the risk of attention
deficit-prone Americans growing weary of the product. Furthermore, there are
naysayers like me who will continue to joke about and mock Instagram until it
has been driven into the ground.
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