23 Mobile Things - Thing 10 : Sharing Photos

Thing 10 “Sharing photos with family and friends is as easy as could be with apps, and as popular as ever. Selfies, sporting events, cat and dog pictures, Throwback Thursday, and more, people are taking picture of every aspect of their lives and sharing them with family and friends.”

So right up front I'm going to say -- Yup, that's me with photo sharing. Remember my post for Thing 9? I am all about capturing and sharing pics.

Instagram
So once again I've had this app for awhile. And once again I've not really used it. (Hmm, I see a trend here-- I check out apps & then use them for a little bit & move on if I'm not totally hooked right away.) So I'm giving Instagram another look & try. 

Right away upon signing in for the 1st time in 2+ years I see I have 3 requests to follow me. Why? I've posted 6 photos to-date. Here's a snip of my so-far pathetic account:

As you can see above: I need to update my profile and I have no followers nor am I following anybody. Boring. I do like the photos that I shared. 

I looked at finding some people to follow and opted for the FB link. I was surprised how many of my FB friends showed up! I then looked at a few of their profiles (if public) and their photos. Um, from the ones I previewed they all seemed to be pics that they shared on FB -- ones I've already seen. If that's the case then I'm not sold. I can see them on FB. Well, unless I just want to view pics and not feeds. Would I want to do that? 

Next up I tried "Instagram suggested". About 8 suggestions and nothing that jumped out at me as to why suggested? I'm not sure. I'm not a NASCAR fan. The others seemed random. Maybe random is in? I don't see where my profile gives a lot away about me that the app could have tried to determine my likes. Hmm, more wondering.

So lastly I looked via "Explore". Um, I'm not a prude but 1/2 of the suggestions were of girls in bikinis etc. -- those were the pics before I actually tried to explore. And if you're going to give me scantily clad people I'll take them in the good looking male version please and thank you. 

Exploring-- I tried "Paris" for a search term since I've been there and I'm of French descent. The general pics were a wide variety but I suppose that's to be since any user can assign any hashtag to a photo. Kind of like "tagging" in library catalogs. But I digress. "ParisFashionWeek" was more fun with lots of fashion to look at. stylewatchout had this graphic:

And lujanotova had this graphic:

I concur with both! So I'll leave Instagram for now-- I need to think it over a bit more as to how I would really use it and if I would use it. Maybe that's why I've had my account for almost 3 years and not really done anything. Hmm. Like I said, if I don't insta-ntly love it, I won't use it.