04
Apr

Instagram: A Post-Facebook Social Network?

There’s a lot of things I love about Instagram.  It makes every photo a piece of art.  It makes it really easy to get a visual glimpse into peoples’ lives.  It is beautifully simplistic: Browse peoples’ photos without getting lost in the other bullshit they post.  (i.e. tweets, status updates, links, etc.).

What impresses me most about Instagram though is how it supersets my other social networks.  On Instagram I’m able to browse my Facebook & Twitter friends’ photos, which essentially means it brings together my close ties and my weak ties into one place.  In that sense, Instagram is the first post-Facebook social network service I use.  I call it a post-Facebook social network because it’s a social network that exists outside of Facebook and that fully functions and provides value to me in addition to the utility I get from Facebook.  Facebook is clearly the best way to share with the people you know well.  But Instagram is rapidly becoming a great way to discover the world through the eyes of people you find interesting.

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