Instagram
By Teshia Sukhlal
What is Instagram?
- An online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service
- Allows users to take picture and videos from app
- Also allows users to share pictures and videos privately and publicly through the app
- Offers hastags to help people categorize and find pictures/videos they are interested in
- Lets users conntect through various sites, like Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Flickr
Brief History
Cons
- Functions primarily on a mobile platform
- Images are small
- Tags (hastags) are confusing sometimes to categorize images and videos into
- Strolling is endless
- Suggestions on who to follow keep on popping up
Pros
Sources
- www.google.com
- http://thenextweb.com/magazine/2013/06/21/instagram-a-brief-history/#gref
- Created by two 26 years old Stanford Graduates, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in 2010
- Started out as a mobile app
- Took eight weeks to be built, but took over a year to develop
- Gained a million users by December 2010
- By 2011, there were more than 10 million users
- Later bought over by Facebook in 2012
- Easy to share photos with others around the world
- Lots of filters to make image look presentable and right
- Clean and professional looking
- Frequent updates with new featrures
- Good Privacy Protection