Instagram

“it's reasonable to call YouTube (and instagram, which also gets the same treatment) two of the all time best corporate acquisitions”

“I like my twitter, youtube and insta recommendations and have discovered many new creators who I wouldn't have otherwise.”

“Your Instagram account has been suspended. This is because your account, or activity on it, doesn't follow our Community Standards on account integrity.”

“When I open Instagram that is still connected to all my old friends, class mates, travel buddies and whatever I get 90% third party ads and 10% posts”

“The reality: When the teen exceeds their set daily watch time limit, the notification includes option to skip and continue watching”

“I've had far more success personally in growing my reading list with books I ended up loving by following a few people on Instagram”

“if you have an Instagram account they'll try to give you a Threads account and photos I post to Insta automatically go to Threads”

“child trafficking being advertised through Instagram with public but non explicit photos, and Meta's failure to remove that content”

“There's still a community for any subject on both Facebook and Instagram except it's all buried under spam and bad intentions.”

“Instagram is stealing my wife. Literally, the mental rot it inspires from echo chambers makes sensible human conversation sadly very hard.”

“This guy on instagram does a good job of highlighting this (and other unsafe roadside hazards).”

“they can be dangerous and people don't understand what they're getting into when they download, say, Instagram, for the first time”

“"the algorithm" (of Twitter/X, FB, Instagram, YouTube, Google, everyone) has propagandising biases that damage society”

“Most large tech companies buy late and struggle to integrate the products and teams they acquire without creating massive damage. He didn’t. Twice.”

“The only good strategic decisions that he was ever made were the acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp.”

“Identifying to acquire WhatsApp & Instagram, both laughed at when bought for the acquisition price at that time, now massive businesses for Meta”

“IG is firmly entrenched in modern society and culture, they make insane amounts of money off of that.”

“Not that they will give you much action on that without the sweet sweet accelerant of ad money.”

“I deleted Instagram a few years ago. Unfortunately too many restaurants and friends want to connect there”

“you need to specifically adjust your feed every time you open the app, which makes it kind of useless against the addictive nature of it”

“I've booked a lot of shows through Instagram ads actually. Shows I learnt about only through those ads”

“Instagram is 'the' dating app as you can vet people better and see if they have any social proof”

“all of the other major investments by the company have been acquisitions. Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus.”

“allows me to maintain relationships with people I am unable to physically see for long periods”

“the friction is so low so I get to see a lot of stuff my friends, acquaintances and especially just people”

“it's much better to follow their work on the standard architecture of Instagram than on their own handcrafted and "beautiful" website”

“"The people on it" is not as much of a thing as you might be used to from social media like Instagram, Reddit, Tumblr, or HN.”

“i have found the ads sometimes incredibly helpful - sometimes exactly the thing i am looking for”

“Instagram doesn't go to people and ask them what they want, they study behavioral psychology to get people to use their products more.”

“has been a boon for small businesses, providing them visibility in the marketplace that was previously unavailable to them”

“this is a common complaint about Instagram is that it feels impossible to find a reel based on keywords”

“The real plague is the infinite scroll, engagement-farming social media like Twitter, post-newsfeed Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok.”

“the best solutions I've seen to this problem seem to be arising on instagram due to its good location based advertising”

“Youtube and Instagram were useful and fun to start with (say, the first 10 years), in a limited capacity they still are.”

“Instagram until about 2 years ago was pretty cool about just showing you people you follow instead of dumping unwanted algorithmic shit on you.”

“The moderation policies have always been a bit erratic with instagram, even worse since they fired all of their moderators last year and moved a lot of it to AI.”

“connected to other data leaked by people using Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram or other Facebook properties”

“People are getting access to an instantaneous global publishing platform with hundreds of millions of eyeballs at zero cost to themselves.”

“If you read anything from FB/Insta etc., you have outsourced what will come next in your feed.”

“if you can't do YouTube, Facebook, Tiktok, INsta, etc... your speech will not be heard by anyone”