Instagram And Snaptigram: My Personal Role And Opinipation With Social Media

For my age, my personal role and participation with social media sites, communities and applications is underwhelming to say the least. I am not involved in many sites, I do however have a Facebook profile, but am not an active user. The applications in which I am an active user are Instagram and Snapchat. As for an online community, I do take part in a fantasy football community. However, my interaction is only with people I know well on all the above platforms.

Instagram is a social media application where users are afforded the ability to share photos with their followers. As Instagram has grown it has become multimodal. You are now able to chat through Instagram, post videos as well as many other features. As a user of Instagram, I only use a small portion of the available features that Instagram offers.

Like most social media platforms they evolve and create what some may consider empty content. Empty content are posts such as memes or click-bait, which are headlines for articles with a link attached to it. This is a major reason why I stay off of other social media platforms. While empty content can be very annoying, some empty content can be advantageous. Some content is driven by pop culture such as memes making it an easy way to stay current or the explore tab on Instagram is full of various

The simple features and lack of attention in which it commands may be the major reason for my use. I have had Snapchat since my senior year of high school, about five years. For me that is the longest I have ever used a social media site consistently on a daily basis. Snapchat allows the user to send pictures and videos that only last for one to ten seconds depending on the user’s preference. Snapchat has progressed over the years adding and updating their features. Features such as, Story, face filters that over the past year have become multimodal allowing users to chat through instant message, calling or