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Instagram-bad or good?

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Is InstagrM good?  

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  1. 1. Is InstagrM good?

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SpaceXray

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You must have noticed, even if you are the most anti-social person on Earth, that Instagram is slowly, but steadily, gaining as much popularity as Facebook. But is Instagram such a good thing? A photo repository which also allows you to add "filters" when uploading sound great, right? Especially if it's merged with Facebook, so you get 2 birds at once What could be bad about it? Nothing, right? Wrong.

First of all, I'll speak as a photographer. Instagram is very, I mean VERY bad for taking photos. It completely ruins your shots. Motion bluff, terrible DOF, terrible focus(most of the times people too lazy to manually select a focus point), terrible lighting and so on. The most annoying thing is that people think that slapping on filters magically makes photos better. Wrong again. The quality of a photo has nothing to do with that. Most of the time(95%) you don't even need filters. You are better off using your standard camera app on your iPhone or just picking up your DSLR(or a Smple digital cam).

Secondly, Instagram is just a huge pile which is made up by 90% out of trash(this includes terrible selfies, pet photos, meme pics,nails and so on). Not to mention that all of these photos are just bad, they carry no sense, they don't have a story, or any feeling. They are just a flat layer of pixels stored in some server. If only Instagram was more like Flickr-you have to put effort to share good pictures. It is probably the exact opposite of Instagram. What do you think? Do you like Instagram or hate it?

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I don't-even though an iPhone offers very few options for customization, and everything is mostly automatic, it still surprises me how most people think taking photos is so simple-point and press. It doesn't work like that. It all depends on exposure, focus and so on. I have a few apps that allow me to extend the shutter speed all the way to 30+ seconds(a clever software trick where 1s exposures are combined), an app that allows me to lock ISO and shutter speed and more. But that isn't the main reason. If you removed autofocus on all iPhones, Apple would get spammed with complaints that the camera is broken. Autofocus works 80% of the time-just get the main subject in the center. However, say you want a can if Cola to be sharp, but it is a bit to the right-the camera just focused on the background and the can becomes fuzzy. Many people don't know you can just tap the can on the screen and focus on it instead of the center of the frame. Heck, you can even lock the exposure on the stock camera! Many people don't know this, and it can often ruin shots.

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it still surprises me how most people think taking photos is so simple-point and press. It doesn't work like that.

Sure, but most people aren't really trying to take great photos, they just want a quick snap. You're applying the standards of an enthusiast to a wider group.

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just because almost everyone has a camera today does not mean that almost everyone is automatically a photographer.

True, however the least people can do is not spam the Internet with 50 toilet photos! Each shot needs to be Of value and should be thought about if it is worth it. Like one of my good friends said:

The best image always stays in your head

I usually see something amazing, admire it for a while, and if I have time, I take 10+- photos and choose the best one and delete the rest. Neil Armstrong took 6 photos in total during his trip, but each of these has become legendary and is worth gold. Funnily, photos are almost like currency. If they get on Instagram, they instantly lose their value(not mentioning the upload which reformats and ruins the whole thing).

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i have a folder on my computer that is just a bottomless pit of photos containing nothing but cats. theres at least 10 gigs of them. i never look at them. i did get into them once awhile back when i was moderator on another forum, as an april fools joke (or maybe it was to celebrate the 1337th post on a long meaningless thread, idk), i felt an undying urge to edit everyones post to insert a picture of a cat, which went on for several hours. thats the only time those came in handy. fortunately ive only uploaded 2% of those to the internet.

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Where did you hear this lie? He took a crapload of photos and they're all readily available online in various archives.

Some of them are pretty rubbish, too:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-37-5507.jpg

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-37-5530.jpg

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-37-5532.jpg

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It'll be worth it knowing I saved the social life of the whole world.

The social network is like a pit full of crazy madman with a pedestal in it. If you push of the current madman off the podium, the others will fight until someone gets to replace him. If you manage to kill one network, another even worse one will appear.

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It'll be worth it knowing I saved the social life of the whole world.

It's an image-hosting service with some terrible filters. That's all it is. Nobody will even remember it in a couple of year's time.

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It's an image-hosting service with some terrible filters. That's all it is. Nobody will even remember it in a couple of year's time.

Umm no, it makes people show off and get jealous and envious. That is why it is bad. It is a graphic version of Facebook

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So don't use it, this seems like a very fixable problem, don't like it don't use it.

It completely absorbs people from real life, turning them into wandering smartphone-wielding zombies. Society is getting worse every year because of "social" networks.

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It completely absorbs people from real life, turning them into wandering smartphone-wielding zombies. Society is getting worse every year because of "social" networks.

Really? Social networks are the problem in today's society? I would go into the real problems however forum rules forbid me from doing so. Social networks are the end result, not the root.

And again what Seret said, the irony is flowing very strongly here.

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