Can someone explain the appeal of Instagram to me?

Can someone explain the appeal of Instagram to me?
All it does it completely destroy the quality of your images with extreme levels of compression, and shrink them down to a tiny resolution, while not even allowing you to zoom or open it in a new tab.
There is no end-user benefit here, just server cost cutting, why do people use it?

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Instagram is not a photo hosting site.
It's a social media app; the images actually look better on the phone

this is not technology, and Instagram is appealing to fucking narcissist

all your 'friends' are on instagram.

when you post on instagram, your 'friends' like and comment on your photos and that gives you a dopamine boost.

the end

ps. the technical aspect is completely pointless and the sooner aspies like you understand that the sooner you will understand that 98% of people in the world are not INTx

media-whoring
PR
seeking attention & fame
casuals

How much of a fucking mentally handicapped autist are you exactly, you dumb fuck. Use the application, people don't use the god damn site for anything.

Jesus Christ. Imagine thinking you're smart and having the normie bare basics fly over your head completly.

op you are 100% right.
but normal people don't care whatt goes on behind the scenes

fixed your cancerous image

There's a workaround to getting the original image but I'm not going to tell you

>browses Sup Forums
>can't use the inspect tool in a browser to view the source image
You need to leave, OP.

Found the inspect element hacker

dat leg tho

>appeal of Instagram

Quick fame
Quick attention to your product/service/body/clothes

Instagram is more about social over photo

its an easy way to look at thots.
stalking isn't a thing there because its the apps main function

no, there is a whole different way of doing it

>Le print screen man

>shares a quote about how consuming garbage media is wrong.
>proceeds to use and consume garbage media.
soo true xD had to share *takes selfie*

it is used for advertising

every post is a "look what i bought post" #companyname #productname #shill

stop subscribing to ads

It's so that normies can take pictures of things they think are important (such as themselves) to show other normies

The pixelation and over compression is a feature not a bug. If you see any of these chicks in HD you suddenly see they aren't nearly as hot as they look in the pictures.

Whores post images of themselves in suggestive clothing/poses and knuckle dragging retards follow and comment on their pictures, perhaps due to some primaeval notion this will increase their chance of mating. In return the whore receives ad revenue from products they shill. It's the lowest form of social media that exists.

The are mods for the Instagram application genius. And why would you be at all upset about one of the most popular soft core porn websites? Treat it like anything more than that and you're doing it wrong.

>Can someone explain the appeal of Instagram to me?
It's a narcissism enabler. You can post all your pics and receive worship

pretty much this

I wouldn't be surprised half the accounts were bots and fake and gay

>It's a social media app; the images actually look better on the phone
no?

data mining

>Viewing the Image in a seperate tab
>Removing the "s320x320" or whatever from the address
This workaround?

BASED mckenna

theus.github.io/instantgram/
go nuts

just to add, this does videos, gallery images and also the 24 hour snapchat ripoff things as well. The images are still limited to the originals so if they were taken on a potato then that's what you're getting however all the sluts have iphones with hi res cameras now.
>also highlights the fact all the files have facebook filenames so you can see how deep the facekikery goes.

Nigger are you implying that is the site "allowing" you to zoom the image or open it in a new tab? They literally removed the infrastructure that gives you that freedom. That is the criticism. Go away paid shill.

This is the first time I've seen a girl on Instagram using an Android phone.

this is monumentally wrong.
any professional and/or a person who has any inclination for social interaction and his standing among peers needs to have an
instagram/facebook with stuff in it. when people meet you, want to find you online, they enter facebook first and instagram second to see who you are. how you feel about the platform is irrelevant, it's just what people do. Doing an interview? went out on a date with a woman? Networking in a professional event? they'll look you up.

i'm not saying you need to give into the botnet and upload your life into instagram, but you do need to maintain a respectable front, so when people enter your shit they get the feeling you're a trustable person who is well liked and has his life in order. shunning social media doesn't give you any virtue, it makes you an edgelord who will seem weird to his peers and will devalue you in the eyes of others. if you're thinking "people will see beyond the bullshit" - no, they won't.
what I do is upload a nicely orchestrated picture once a few weeks/months into my instagram doing a hobby/coffee and laptop/picture with friends. same with facebook, delete all the clutter there and leave things that'll reflect nicely on you

Given enough normies eating shit, eating shit becomes a normal activity.

You are an insecure retard. The man literally listed all the things you insecure-project validated. Your entire post is "you're wrong because I'm triggered". Every word you said is in conformity to his listed reasons, which ultimately is only because it's socially the norm. Next time control your emotions and only claim dissent when you reasons are actually dissenting.

how am i an insecure retard? i'm claiming that whatever his opinions on social media might be, it's necessary to maintain a presence on it if you want to advance in the world. the one who seems triggered is you, throwing insults over my arguments and calling me triggered without actually dressing anything. kys faggot

he's being a dick because the reasons that gave for people using it cover what you said in broad strokes but completely dismiss the importance of using social media to your advantage.

>dude why would you be upset about le hot chicks lmao? r u gay?
Who the fuck cares about softcore porn when there is actual porn out there? Instagram's only purpose is enabling thots and thirsty betas. It's pure degeneracy.

You disprove your point in your own post. You're basically saying it's good for PR, which is one of the things that poster mentioned. You also say it's secondary to facebook, so it's not even necessary. Then you go on to mention that you have to spend some effort on maintaining an acceptable profile, something you didn't have to waste time doing ten years ago.

stop pretending that you can't see the attraction to Instagram. It's pretty fucking obvious why people like sharing photos of themselves/things that they like and discussing it with their friends/family. It's also a great way for businesses/celebrities to communicate with their audience. Because it's so widely popular among the majority of people, it's seen as weird if you reject it entirely, like anything else that the majority of people are into.

I'm not saying I can't see the attraction, I'm saying it's trash.

Fair enough. It's an issue of the core audience, not the platform itself though. If you follow pages that post things which you like and get involved yourself it can be a blast imo.

>but completely dismiss the importance of using social media to your advantage.

"the importance of using social media to your advantage" was literally mentioned before user tried to pretend he disagreed despite his position agreeing completely

>the one who seems triggered is you, throwing insults over my arguments and calling me triggered without actually dressing anything. kys faggot

wew lad. Surely this proves every one of points the user you quoted listed to not cover your position. You really think this proves what I said wrong? Why did you even reply to me with this out of context garbage? Go home nigger.

The platform itself is redundant imo. It's a facebook with fewer features. Apparently text posts are in beta right now, which is not surprising, since all these platforms just converge on each other over time.

You approaching it like a sociopath is weirder than people who just don't bother.

That's the draw to it. It cuts out all the unnecessary bullshit and functions purely as a personal gallery that friends/family can see immediately.

No way that vapid whore knows who elder god Terrance McKenna is

doesn't mention that whatsoever.

fucks sake, I meant

you can actually access the file directly. easiest way is to go to "view image info" in firefox and open the link that you find there.

>media-whoring
>PR
>seeking attention & fame
>casuals
Ok. So let's go down the list.

>media-whoring
Broadcasting yourself on social media.

>PR
Public relations, a.k.a. overseeing what your brand shows to the public.

>seeking attention & fame
Getting your instagram bigger/ more noticed.

>casuals
The young and hip people use instagram.

So now let's look at user's criticism of this post and these reasons.

>this is monumentally wrong.
>any professional and/or a person who has any inclination for social interaction and his standing among peers

barely two sentences in and his singular point giving context to his "this is monumentally wrong" claim is in complete conformity with 4/4 reasons the guy he's quoting listed, with the only partial exception being the third, since the "fame" part of "seeking attention & fame" is not fulfilled. Now grovel before me for your making me waste my fucking time explaining how and where some fucking illiterate cunt claimed to disagree while his reasoning betrays his own claim.

how would that even work. how do people find the whores on that site? theres absolutely nothing visible if you go on the front page.

Alright, man. I acknowledged that broadly covers the point of what said because he was basically just describing PR. I then said dismisses the importance of this because he lumped it in with media-whoring, seeking attention & fame and fucking 'casuals'. All of which belittle the importance of using the platform effectively as a professional. made some good points and I'm not splitting any more hairs over this utter fucking nonsense.

It's exactly the preachy narcissism that the "best" Instagram users need to succeed: wow you *need* an IG to "advance yourself"? What a fucking joke.

Yep, makes ugly bitches doable, that's the whole appeal.

>while not even allowing you to zoom
on your phone u can pinch zoom idiot

Not sure, I can't stand twitter either, navigation is the worst I've ever seen. Maybe I'm missing some tricks.

Imagine being a woman and uploading a shitty bathroom selfie of yourself; you get hundreds of likes and comments and people praising you.

This shit gives women a huge dopamine rush, and guys make it so they can get laid. It encourages narcisissm.

Social media is destroying society, kids can't go a minute without looking at their phone, no one plays outside anymore, people are antisocial and weird.

Take me back to 90's and anyhting before facebook and smartphjones.

FUck this world man

>that block of what is probably all backpedaling bullshit
better uses of my time than reading that.

>Take me back to 90's

I miss those days for the same Cheesy Pizza reasons you do.

Are you retarded?

>All it does it completely destroy the quality of your images with extreme levels of compression, and shrink them down to a tiny resolution, while not even allowing you to zoom or open it in a new tab. There is no end-user benefit here, just server cost cutting, why do people use it?
>those reasons
why i'm not surprised?

Masturbating to pictures of these self-absorbed whores has become one of my favourite pass-times of late.

Roasties post there for attention so the betas post there to be with the roasties so the roasties post there for attention so the advertisers pay the roasties to get them attention