April 11, 2012
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Instagram Rant.
Congratulations, Mark Zuckerberg! You paid $1 billion dollars for grainy, over-saturated pictures of people's lunches.
In a nutshell, Instagram is a mobile app that allows you to take a photo, apply one of many grainy filters, and share it with others. I think we saw a glimpse of this on MySpace.
Example of every other Instagram photo.I don't hate the application or the company. What I do hate are the users and how people use Instagram as a tool to edit and share filtered photos of themselves to make themselves look better. Stop making yourself look vintage. You had that chance with Kodak Polaroids, now it's too late. I hate how people easily leap into this fad when you have so many tools at your disposal, like Facebook or Twitter. You deserve double crotch kicks if you link your Instagram postings to your Twitter and Facebook.
Instagram is to photos, as makeup is to a pig. Just because you apply filters doesn't make you a better photographer. It just covers up your crap. These filters add no originality to your pictures. All it does it make your photo look like the other person's.
Ladies and gentleman, you have a high megapixel smartphone and you upload the most doctored, grainiest pictures since the man who recorded the Loch Ness monster crossed the river. Stop that.
What are your thoughts on Instagram? Do you use Instagram?
Comments (72)
Insta-failllll!
Instagram is alright, but some photos don't need to be Instagram'd... but still are. haha
I never used it but it seems like most of the rest of the World has.
A totally serious post, how strange. xD I second your comment.
I don't mind it... Not everyone is a photographer... That's why they use it.(Not that filters arn't used by good photographers or anything.)lolYou seem to be easily annoyed. Are you?
I'm too hipster for Instagram... Hipstamatic.Facebook could have acquired Kodak instead of Instagram. The only people celebrating on this is Instagram and the investors that managed to double their portfolio after Instagram raised $500 million from $45 million.I'm not sure if this is a good investment for Facebook.
Hell no I feel similarly to you about instagram.
@stupid_systemus - I used Hipstamatic before. It was a good 15 minutes of fun.I hear that tech bubble ready to burst!
It's obviously not the technology or infrastructure facebook paid for, since it'd probably cost closer to $35k to build a facebook feature similar to Insta-holy-fuck-this-shit-is-worth-a-billion-to-a-harvard-smuck.I can't imagine what kind of personal information facebook wants to steal from shitty pictures. Unless there's pictures of Mark that he really need to be taken off the internet.
@Thatslifekid - high 5!@MommyMarty22 - I am easily annoyed by the most annoying things. WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT?
@nov_way - Y SO SRS?@TheTheologiansCafe - Forever alone, we are.
@fLiPgUy31O - Instagram ALL the photos!@iscaphia - lol @ the last bit. I think FB is banking on the millions of users Instagram has, before Twitter or another social network (G+) snatches them up.
@CaKaLusa - Also, I'm far too hipster for instagram.
I think vintage filters were a fad before Instagram made them hugely popular (I think Etsy is actually to blame), and so I've tried to use them sparingly in my own photography.I don't have an Instagram account and never plan to get one.
@Thatslifekid - Instagram? I use 35mm.
I think its alright sometimes, but I believe that with any sort of editing that people apply to pictures via picnik, pixler etc. Its designed to mask your flaws. People believe they look better in instagram photos. Its the new duck face - peace sign.
Wait interwebz fight or physically?Interwebz no... You would slaughter me...Physically... I might be able to hurt yah a bit... Your profile picture has you looking a little fragile.
I've never liked Instagram. I can take shitty photos just fine without its help.
@methodElevated - It was popularized with lomography many years ago. Hipstamatic made it easier to replicate with the digital age. WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT...@I_heart_cute_quotez - Very true. Making something vintage makes it a better photo, apparently.
@MommyMarty22 - Frah-gee-lay! It must be Italian. @the_rocking_of_socks - high5
I just got the app last week and it's ok. I prefer my DSLR and my orginal work.
@suefa_lee - Ditto!
@CaKaLusa - Well clearly, I have no idea what I'm talking about, then.
@methodElevated - No, you're not completely wrong. Just mostly incorrect.kidding. :p
I still can't understand how instagram can be worth anywhere near $1 billion.
@coolmonkey - I agree. Then again, they said that about Youtube, and we all know how that turned out.
I'd only heard of it because of the acquisition.
I don't use it for the same thoughts you shared. I think it's stupid, honestly.
noooo fuck you i love instacrap!!!
They look like old family photos from the '70s.I think, if I saw old family photos from the '70s and they were all modified to have a vintage 1930's look, I would think, "Man, I wish my family wasn't a bunch of pretentious douchebags so I could see what the actual fucking pictures looked like."
hey, i like sharing my oversaturated lunch with everyone.
Like anything else, instagram should be used in moderation and with careful consideration.
Insta-who???
@Uek - now you knowsies!@laytexduckie - indeed!@bAbiiExxPiNay - *patpat*@Iobot - It's like a time warp.@eatdrinkandbemaryy - Oh, me toooooo!@junbelievable08 - except nice things. Can never have enough nice things!@LegionOfLucifer - insta-wahaaaa
don't have the app, and don't use it. I'm a kodak girl... they're going bankrupt, and my childhood is weeping if it goes...
Ouch! Lol But I totally get you
Guilty! But I don't filter everything, there are pictures that don't need it.
but... but.... that's the only way I can look tan.
I don't really care about the filters, but the sharing part of pictures and ONLY picture I like. BTW, Facebook will destroy instagram in a matter of months.
Chris! I'm kind of sad we didn't take a photo! Pinky promise next time? When I'm in NY
@diana22lv - I knowwww! We should've (when I was completely sober)! *pinky promise*
@Ladiiee - instafails!@mkazama - GTL!@babixling - *patpat* You're excused.@oxyGENE_08 - User, I assume?@smile4leena - Noooo! Poor Kodak!
I am a better photographer now thanks to Instagram
I don't use any of those photo apps; my camera phone is actually that shitty.
http://i.imgur.com/bS8Gy.gif
Some pictures on ibstagram are definitely over kill
I know i is no photographer. Just use for fun ah. I look like shit on photos either way.
@CaKaLusa - Lol yeah. Guilty as charged
The first time I heard of Instagram was the other day when they announced that Facebook was buying it. If that's really pretty much all it is, then that FB dude is a ZUCKER indeed. Must be good to have a billion bucks to just throw down the toilet for shits and giggles. *rolls eyes* Amazing.
I don't use instagram but I'm also in a dessert without a phone. I'll probably join the the bandwagon (if only for the weekend) when I re-deploy
@phuck_diz_shiz - another ...customer!@raised_bywolves - oh noessss!@mrqtran - :X@RoidBear5 - overfilter ALL the photos!@mae - You don't need any filters, wifey!
@Unstoppable_Inner_Strength - zuckers indeed!@diditdreaming - best of luck, sir!
I don't use it because I don't have an iphone, but I think the filters are kind of cool lol
@CaKaLusa - awwwwwwwwwwww i love you too!
I don't use it, don't feel I need to nor want to use an app for it when my ipod touch has a lousy camera in the first place.
I still prefer to use my digital camera for it gives you the real sense of presenting your photographs - clear and crisp!
this post describes exactly how i feel about this damn new trend. thank you for making me feel less alone in my fight against instagram. :')
@chlebek - Thanks for agreeing!
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