My last stop on my social media-learning quest is Instagram.
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I was most excited to view the Instagram presentation. It has grown to be my absolute favorite social media-networking site. It is a way for people to give others a little insight into their world through pictures and videos, even quotes and funny grams.
I knew a little bit bout instagram going into this presentation but not nearly as much as I did about Facebook and Twitter. I knew mainly only how to operate instagram, which the presenters did a good job at showing as well.
They delved into the history of instagram in a fun and cute manner. I didn’t know who the creator of instagram was and thanks to the presentation, I do now. I also didn’t know that it was created in 2010 and that it generated over 100 million users in less than a year of it being up. I knew that it was a fairly young social media medium but I thought it came out maybe in 2011 because that was when I started really noticing it. The number of users it generated in that first year is also mind boggling because it was only available to iPhone users in the first couple of years of its existence.
I feel like they could’ve also broken up its history a little bit more into a timeline because like I previously stated, Instagram was only available to iPhone users when it was first created. They did not state that it became available to android users in 2012 and officially became available to windows users for free in 2013.
They talked about the Instagram Direct function but they did not note that it became available to its users in November 2013.
They also did not state that Instagram did not always have video. The video function became available in instagram in the summer of 2013.
The presentation did a great job at showing the interface of the app and the site. They explained what each tab in instagram was used for and they showed how to operate it.
I wish they did say when instagram developed a website online for people to actually visit because for a long time it was only an app for mobile devices.
All in All instagram is still a young and growing app and site and many features are yet to be made and released. For what it is, the presenters did what they could but it could’ve been a little better.