Categories: BusinessCurrent_EventsCybercultureMediaSocial_SoftwareTechnology

Bye Facebook, hello Instagram: Users make beeline for Facebook-owned social network

Instagram dialed in early to the power of building community through visual communication. From the start, Instagram was a mobile app that revolved around snapshots, not snippets of text. This visualization of social media was propelled by young people who, bombarded by text messages, status updates and blog posts, gravitated to a simpler, faster and more expressive medium to tell their stories. Seven out of 10 Americans ages 18 to 24 use the app, according to Pew Center Research. And Instagram says people younger than 25 spend an average of more than 32 minutes a day on the app. —USA Today

Similar:

  • What have my students learned about creative nonfiction writing? During class they are col...
  • There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI
  • Sesame Street had a big plot twist in November 1986
  • I’ve been teaching with this handout for over 25 years, updating it regularly. I just remo...
  • Despite its impressive output, generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the ...
  • I create five color variations of each #blender3d building I #design, and each of those ha...

    • View Comments

    • I deleted Instagram first. It’s narcissistic and a waste of time. Facebook is probably next.

    Leave a Comment
    Share
    Published by
    Dennis G. Jerz
    7 years ago

    Recent Posts

    Another corner building. Designed and textured. Needs an interior. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #medievalyork #mysteryplay

    Another corner building. Designed and textured. Needs an interior. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #medievalyork #mysteryplay

    1 day ago

    What have my students learned about creative nonfiction writing? During class they are collaborating on a Google Doc that’s coming together very nicely before our eyes.

    What have my students learned about creative nonfiction writing? During class they are collaborating on…

    2 days ago

    There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI

    Two years after the release of ChatGPT, it may not be surprising that creative work…

    3 days ago

    I both like and hate that Canvas tracks the number of unmarked assignments that await me. (This number was 230 this weekend.) If marking papers was all I needed to do, this number would be much lower.

    I both like and hate that Canvas tracks the number of unmarked assignments that await…

    3 days ago

    The complex geometry on this wedge building took me all weekend.  #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay #cgi #aesthetics #design

    The complex geometry on this wedge building took me all weekend. The interior walls still…

    5 days ago

    Sesame Street had a big plot twist in November 1986

    My older siblings say they remember our mother sitting them down to watch a new…

    6 days ago