People living the instagram life, can I ask why? Why do you do it? Is it to monetize?
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It's a good place for affiliate marketing.
Some people legit enjoy what they find on there
What about people doing the posting?
I recently went on Instagram for a week or two and it looks like it's all business accounts that get the attention and do the posting, private people's accounts are mostly not public to begin with. I see people haven't posted to their account since 2018 but are active daily. Photos are no longer shared but videos, even single frame videos which could be a picture are now uploaded as videos.
I think largely the same. Seems like a personal journal / art project and a lot of people keep up with each other using constant content as a medium. Not my cup of tea, but I know enough healthy cool people that participate for me to believe it can’t all be bad. A lot of them even keep their account private so literally doing it for their friend network only.
My first wife loved IG. She would also do /anything/ for attention, up to and including strip in public for free (after we broke up).
The (possible, future) influencer money is just what they tell their parents. And the bank, if it calls about their credit cards.
A lot of local business use it, so if i need something I ask on instagram or use instagram to see the business location if i dont know
I am not on Instagram, but I was looking into opening one recently.
For an artists perspective its *free advertising for your art. Easy way to get an audience and sell your wares. Also companies may sponsor you or send you stuff to advertise.
In my industry (animation) people have gotten hired through their Instagram. Hollywood is a shitshow so they have been trying to get well known artists to "work" on their projects in hopes to get their followers interested.
So mostly its advertising/money.
*free as in you give up the rights to your images posted there. Lots of artists don't understand this and then get upset their work was sold to some LLM.
It's a great place to connect with others in my industry. So my community is there and has way more content that interests me.
Most of my friends are there. That's why I use Instagram.
Story is the place I can find what they are doing recently, not in the Post.
Same logic as FB. My parents and some friends who are older stay in FB.
Monetisation is not my reason.
I use it passively to follow local businesses and accounts of my interest. Rarely posting myself. Works much better than Facebook where curating the feed is next to impossible and lot of times I missed updates from the follows I cared about.
Kinda simple cope mechanism.