Instagram


The best photo sharing app!

What is Instagram?

Instagram is a very popular smart phone app for sharing photos, videos with your friends. The founders of it are Kevin Systrom and Mike Grieger. It was come into use in 6th of October in 2010. Since Instagram is very popular it was chosen as the best mobile app in social media by Shorty Awards and nominated in Teen Choice Awards.

Instagram can be downloaded as free from all app stores and used from usual androids.

The app let you to create your own profile and can be connected other social networking profiles like Facebook and Twitter.

You can share photos, videos, hashtag pages, profiles, locations with your followers. If you want to share them only with a single person, you can use ‘’Direct Message’’ which is on the right corner of the main page.

Instagram let you to post photos, videos into one story and it disappears after 24 hours. There are privacy settings on stories and you can make some changing like hiding your stories from the ones whom you don’t want to show etc.

Pictures and videos shared by you can be seen by anyone. For hiding your post you can make some changing from privacy settings.

As an important thing, there is an age limit on Instagram and to have account users should be at least 13 years old.

Instagram let you to meet new people from all around the world and it is a good app not letting you to feel alone. It also makes your connections with others better since you are always in touch. It is a good app to spend your free time and it also let you to become a seller. You can advertise your products easily by other people thanks to it. It makes you popular among the others as well!

As many social apps, it might have side effects as well like, making you addicted, obsessed, some crisis between the relationships and taking so much time. Since it might make you addicted you may forget to do your own errands.

For uploading photos to your Instagram, you can take the photo within the app or use an image from your stored photos. To start tap to ‘’+’’ icon from the bottom and you will get three choices.

Gallery: To select your photos from your device,
Photo: To take by using your camera
Video: To shoot a video from your camera




To make your photos more attractive you can use filters which are available on Instagram. There are lots of choices and they all will make your photos good looked. By tapping ‘’Edit’’ icon you can also edit tools for your photos like, shadows, vignette, tilt shift, sharpen etc.

Instagram recently got focus mode which is for portrait photos and it makes background blurred and focus on the subject. To use it you need to click the camera icon on Instagram and you will see the focusing option between the Boomerang and Superzoom options.

Sharing Your Instagram Photos

When someone post a new photos or videos it is possible to comment on their posts. Since it includes simile you can also add them on your comments.

It is possible sharing your Instagram photos on your other social networking accounts such as, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr.

Tips about Being Popular on Instagram

Some people using Instagram may want to be popular to do that you need to do something such as, using hashtags, having many followers etc.

We can call Instagram as king on the social media apps in nowadays since; it is the most used one and so many users. 

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