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Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Post by mikeg8 »

xpose2000 wrote: post #30
rjd wrote: post #28

Anyone have an idea what the usage stats for instagram are these days? I've seen a massive drop off on Facebook. It's gone from my news feed more or less just being instragram pics... almsot everyone using it... down to about 3 regular people. It feels to me like everyone I know has stopped using it, unless Facebook is deliberately hiding pics.

I read at a tech blog (can't find source now) that active monthly user counts are as follows: Twitter: 200 mil Instagram: 100 mil LinkedIn: 160 mil Facebook: 1.1b

was that a tweet from dustin curtis? https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/329697840869814273

Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Post by andreigheorghe »

Aardwolf wrote: post #33
jonathanjaeger wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's super fast to take pictures. You don't have to use a filter, but if you do, you can make an average or below-average picture look halfway decent (or even amazing). There's very little friction to get started and it's easy to follow and interact with people. Easier said than done to get such a great experience on mobile. It's photos and social done right, in my opinion. Anectdotally, it got someone like me who ne…

Are these filters better than what Photoshop/Gimp/... can do?

Of course not, but you can't compare a desktop application like Photoshop to a mobile app because the use cases are completely different. With Instagram you can take the picture, select the filter, upload the photo and share to Facebook, all within 10 seconds, at the beach. During that time, Photoshop is still loading fonts and initializing action palette, on your computer at home :).

Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Post by btrautsc »

Aardwolf wrote: post #19

Is it possible for someone to explain to a rarely-social-network-site-user what Instagram actually does? All I know is it has something to do with photos. But you already can upload photos to various social network sites (and could already upload photos way before this whole so called social thing existed). And marketing talk saying how great photos are (which I think people knew 100 years ago too already) doesn't re…

I was not a fan until recently, but my wife and her friends have been avid users for quite some time.

A. Frictionless sign up. easy to find friends [1] B. Extremely efficient to 'share' photos with the world, i.e. Facebook, Twtter, tumblr... C. Photos look good. Like, exceptionally good for just snapping your dog outside or some random place. If you use Instagram (or other filtered photo apps) you start to realize 90% of non-professional picture taken without filters look like crap. D. It is a photo sharing network. Except the photos are good. Its mobile-centric. And fairly effortless.

1. Something about finding "real" friends and starting a "new" network is very refreshing (i.e. Path's thesis). Get rid of the hundreds of FB posts I don't want to see, now just see a niche group of friends photos (not /rants) & make my photos look a lot better than 3 seconds ago when I took it.

Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Post by Kluny »

andreigheorghe wrote: post #42
Aardwolf wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are these filters better than what Photoshop/Gimp/... can do?

Of course not, but you can't compare a desktop application like Photoshop to a mobile app because the use cases are completely different. With Instagram you can take the picture, select the filter, upload the photo and share to Facebook, all within 10 seconds, at the beach. During that time, Photoshop is still loading fonts and initializing action palette, on your computer at home :).

Not to mention, loads of people don't have Photoshop, have never heard of Gimp, and are scared to even try to get started learning either of them.

Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Post by akharris »

I'm surprised no one is talking about the fact that this is a pretty clear shot across twitter's bow. Users are trained to tag friends in instagram shots using twitter handles, and to generate hashtags for locations and events. This encourages users to move away from that dynamic - effectively removing a large transmission mechanism for instagram via tweeting. Yes, you'll still tweet the pic (maybe), but those in the pic won't be notified.

Very clever move to hurt a competitor while boosting internal engagement.

Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Post by antihero »

AVTizzle wrote: post #40
tyre wrote: post #32

Tagging. They introduced tagging people in photos. Let's not make this out to be some crazy feature, it should be a core part of a photo-based social network. As a non-user, I was a bit shocked that they didn't already have this feature.

Nobody's making this out to be a crazy feature...

They made a video about it.

Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Post by antihero »

Aardwolf wrote: post #33
jonathanjaeger wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's super fast to take pictures. You don't have to use a filter, but if you do, you can make an average or below-average picture look halfway decent (or even amazing). There's very little friction to get started and it's easy to follow and interact with people. Easier said than done to get such a great experience on mobile. It's photos and social done right, in my opinion. Anectdotally, it got someone like me who ne…

Are these filters better than what Photoshop/Gimp/... can do?

They are better than what most people can do with Photoshop/Gimp. People have tried to recreate them with actions but they haven't quite got there.

Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Post by evro »

Aardwolf wrote: post #34
Peer wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like Instagram because it feels less serious then Facebook. When I upload something to Facebook, it feels like it has to be something good. On Instagram I can just post whatever picture I want, doesn't really matter that much. I do also not have any relatives on Instagram, which is quite nice. I think that might be one of the reasons why many like Instagram over Facebook/Flickr (or maybe it's just me that reason th…

So Instagram pictures do not end up at Facebook? I thought they did, shows in how big need I was for an explanation :)

You have the option to additionally post to Facebook and Twitter.

Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Post by prezjordan »

AVTizzle wrote: post #40
tyre wrote: post #32

Tagging. They introduced tagging people in photos. Let's not make this out to be some crazy feature, it should be a core part of a photo-based social network. As a non-user, I was a bit shocked that they didn't already have this feature.

Nobody's making this out to be a crazy feature...

The title made me think there was some sort of face detection at work and I could see photos where I happen to be in the background by chance. I immediately had a moral debate in my head about this, before realizing it's just a tagging feature.

Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Post by evro »

I don't like the direction they took with this feature. From the screenshots it appears to place the tags on the photo itself, similar to how Facebook currently handles tags. This assumes that Instagram photos will have people in the photos. In my experience, this is often not the case and photos tend to be places and things. I do like the concept of adding a "Photos of You" section since I usually mention user handles in my caption. Prior to this feature, if you mentioned a user, they would get a notification and the photo would eventually get buried in your activity feed. Essentially this new section of your profile organizes all those mentioned photos into one easy to find place. I think they took an unnecessary extra step with the tagging IMHO
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