The other day I was at Auchan and went to their technical department, where they sell TVs, cables and various small things like players, memory cards and hard drives. The number of inexpensive players from noname brands surprised me and reminded me of my childhood, when I went to the passage on Paveletskaya and chose one of the many AIWA players. These were very sweet memories, and I decided to share them in Stories Instagram ’a. Before I had time to look back, I had already been recording for three minutes and got great pleasure from this process. The next day I decided to try again and started talking about what I don't like about Instagram and why I use this service quite occasionally. And then I thought that I could tell about this not only to my 500 subscribers in Instagram, but also to our dear readers.
Inconvenient to write, inconvenient to read
Surprisingly, in Instagram people are very fond of long posts. It is no longer enough just to post pretty pictures and a million hashtags. The subscriber wants interesting and useful content. However, writing a large post on this social network is still a problem. You cannot dilute paragraphs with pictures, as a result, emoji become the only 'entertainment' element. And people abuse them a lot. Reading such texts is corny unpleasant. Personally, I am a supporter of the fact that in a post there should be no more than one or two emojis and a couple of hashtags, it's like a hot sauce, which should not be abused.
Reading posts is also inconvenient, a huge wall of text in small print, I've already talked about emoji. Thank God, at least the division into paragraphs was left.
No normal web version
After a couple of my stories, an acquaintance wrote – she asked how things were going in personal messages of the service. We began to correspond, and I understand that it would be more convenient for me to change to the computer and answer from it. But bad luck, messages are not available in the web version. And photo fill is still not available.
And at the same time, people really like to correspond in direct Instagram, although it is several times less convenient than even WhatsApp, I am already silent about Telegram
No normal saving of stories
In a couple of days, I wrote down several stories on three different topics and realized that I would like to be seen not only in the first 24 hours, but also the rest of the time. There is no such option by default. You can post your favorite stories on your page, but if you shoot all the time, then no favorites will be enough. You can post a big video on IGTV, but no one really watches it anymore.
Then what is the success of the service?
The secret Instagram is simplicity. Content is easy to create and easy to consume. If on YouTube I need to pretty much prepare before the video, put on the lights, edit the video, upload and decorate it, then in Instagram I press the record button, say what I want, and then publish it.
The same goes for content consumption. You just open the application and start flipping, flipping, flipping. Have you flipped through everything? Well, here are tons of stories for you from those you follow. And they were overlooked? And here is IGTV, where you can watch videos endlessly, and to switch between them, a simple gesture to the left is enough
Conclusion
Writing stories for my account, I felt from my own experience how easy it is to create content in Instagram, and this is very captivating. It is no less easy to consume it, the service is almost perfect for this. However, there are also many complaints against him, the main ones I voiced above. And now is the time to voice your, dear readers. Tell us if you are using Instagram now or not. What do you like and dislike?
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