What is Instagram for?

• It allowed to take and store photographs in a user
• Add filters and titles to photos
• Later he shared the photographs indicated by the user, in a homonymous social network: Instagram
• It allowed these same photographs to be shared on other social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook

What is Instagram for?

Instagram has had such a development that it has led it to become a social network with global reach.

Instagram is used to:

• It works as a social network
• Share photos and video with friends
• It works as a means of communication
• Retouch photos

Interact with other people

Instagram encourages interaction with other users, in the aspect of sending images and short video files, accompanied by short messages and references in the form of hashtag (#), to allude to a trend.

To share photos and video

Instagram has the ability to help users share photos on a platform, with friends who also use it or with friends who have accounts on other social networks, such as Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.

In addition, there are so-called Instagram stories , which are short videos that users share, of themselves, expressing a message, the circumstances in which they find themselves, or exhibiting their talents.

This function of the Instagram stories was added to the social network Facebook, as a complement to become a more powerful platform.

As a means of communication

With Instagram users can communicate with other members on all sites on the planet. This contact can be established by sending pictures that illustrate the current situation.

For example, a user can deliver a lot of information by sending his own photograph with his mobile phone that indicates that he is in the middle of traffic. This photograph, to which you can also add text, will show a very broad message that will have a scope that will include your friends, your followers and an audience that the user himself chooses.

To retouch photos

With Instagram it is possible to modify the images, in different aspects:

• Range of colors, shades
• Add borders to photo
• Add more small illustrations or icons to complement it
• Splicing two images to show more people, for example

Once the images are on the platform, it will not be possible to modify them; just delete them, having to start the publication of the photograph from scratch, again.

Instagram Features

Instagram is a social network with a fully visual context , since everything is developed around the images that are uploaded to it.

In addition, hashtags (tags that work to reference a topic or trend) can be used, as well as writing to other users and having followers, as in other social networks.

Instagram is an application that does not have a web interface , and it is only possible for photographs to be uploaded and titled from a mobile device (smartphone, iPhone, tablet).

On Instagram, once the images are uploaded, it is no longer possible to edit or retouch to modify or download them. For this to be achieved, you must enter the Apple Store or Play Store portal on the internet.

Although Instagram can share images with other social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr and others, this is not possible with Google+, which despite being widely disseminated, does not have that compatibility with Instagram, limiting interactions in this regard of users with these social networks.

Instagram story

It was initially designed for the iOS operating system of the Apple company , but as a result of the appearance of the Android operating system for mobile devices, since 2012 Instagram versions have been made for the latter.

In this way, the number of users increased and, as a consequence, the social network had a dizzying expansion.

In 2012, Instagram was acquired by Facebook , and soon after, the photographic social network changed its terms of privacy and conditions of use, granting itself the right to sell the photos and images to third parties, without prior notification to users. owners of them.

Due to the above situation, the opposition of the users was generated. Many of them decided to leave the social network Instagram. This has been the main defect of the application / social network, that privacy was violated .