Instagram Adds Photo and Video Replies for Instagram Stories

Like almost every other social media app, Instagram has become a bloated mess full of crap I don't need or care for. I really miss its former simplicity. The same goes for Facebook.

Why do people insist of putting every single thing they do on social media? "Wait i need to snap this photo so i can post it to all my social media".

I dont have fb, ig, twitter and any other sm. I get by just fine.

But whatever

Lol, I was on vacation carrying a few stuffed animals at one of the amusements for the kids and a teenager came up and asked me why I had them. I just shrugged and another teenager asked me if the stuffed animals had an Instagram page. She was serious. ...Okay...:confused:???

I went ahead and took pictures of the stuffed animals. Who knows...maybe I will make an instagram account for them. Apparently stranger things do happen in 2017. :eek:

Like almost every other social media app, Instagram has become a bloated mess full of crap I don't need or care for. I really miss its former simplicity. The same goes for Facebook.

The core functionality of sharing photos is unchanged. Everything else is just a cherry on top of the ice cream sundae.
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Why do people insist of putting every single thing they do on social media? "Wait i need to snap this photo so i can post it to all my social media".

I dont have fb, ig, twitter and any other sm. I get by just fine.

But whatever

Nice to know you speak for how every user of the platforms use them. Social media can be a nice way of keeping in touch and sharing interesting moments from your life with people you can't see all the time. If you treat it with a negative mindset you won't get anything out of it.

Been seeing this for a couple weeks. Certainly increases the engagement level.
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Like almost every other social media app, Instagram has become a bloated mess full of crap I don't need or care for. I really miss its former simplicity. The same goes for Facebook.

And yet all the changes you hate have allowed Instagram to grow faster than any other social media network right now. They've grown Instagram Stories in 5 months to the point it took Snapchat 5 years to reach and they've now far eclipsed Snapchat in active users.

The core functionality of sharing photos is unchanged. Everything else is just a cherry on top of the ice cream sundae.

Well, I wouldn't mind those other features if there was a way to hide or disable them but I'm always accidentally tapping on stuff that I personally have no use for and it gets frustrating.

The same can be said for what Apple has done to iTunes and the Music app. All I want from those two things is the music I've synced from my personal collection but now we have all this other stuff that just gets in the way and with no way to disable it.

Maybe I'm just getting too old and grumpy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why do people insist of putting every single thing they do on social media? "Wait i need to snap this photo so i can post it to all my social media".

I dont have fb, ig, twitter and any other sm. I get by just fine.

But whatever

The best thing to do is use it for business and marketing purposes. Especially for fitness guys like me. We have to post constantly so people notice us and we get either a sponsor or a large fan base. Same goes with entertainers, politicians etc. But most people just post their personal stuff on there.