Instagram Ads. Out of control.
Jimster
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Srs doe, I used to report all sponsored posts and never got ads foisted upon me after that. But last week they have just gone nuts.
I mean, I know it's free and popular so people are going to try and make a buck off it, but I am about done with it as a result of this.
Can we all just come back to the Strut as our #1 shit talking socialway?
I mean, I know it's free and popular so people are going to try and make a buck off it, but I am about done with it as a result of this.
Can we all just come back to the Strut as our #1 shit talking socialway?
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A few weeks ago a good friend of mine was in town and I see a post on Instagram and think wicked, let me hit him up. Turns out the post was from 5 days ago and he's gone. Fuck you Instagram.
That all said, I do enjoy you fools posts. So, it brings me back.
Side note.
Fuck clowns that add me, so I check them out and follow back and then they unfollow me to keep their ratio low. 10,000 followers and only 50 follows. I now block these fools.
The algorithm feed is stupid as hell. How is a computer going to tell me what I want to see first?
The ads just make me stop using it as much. I feel violated and it just makes me log out. IG stories seems dumb to me as well.
There are still cool record posts so I'll keep using it.
FB feed is annoying as well. I have to keep changing it to recent posts multiple times a day, but yeah at least they give you the option.
Feeds are coming like a parade of spam folder escapees.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/20/facebook-data-cambridge-analytica-sandy-parakilas
Not that I've done it, but the experience must be akin to walking down a Benidorm bar-strip where every bar has a plugger outside offering you 2-for-1 dog-piss cocktails in return for 10 minutes of watching strangers behaving worse than animals.
GTFOOHWTBS.
I am also considering doing the same with LinkedIn, esp. if you work in any aspect of IT Security, having all your background available to "Vladimir и им" can't be a good thing.
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I’m doing it manually (quite cathartic) as I’ve only had an account for 4 years and didn’t post much.
If todays instagram was on offer then, i never would have signed up. The online marketers took over and ruined it. (I should know, i used to be one), it's a clusterfuck now. and im still there, looking at pictures of watches ill never afford, records ill never find, and posting pictures of my garden.
I had a point there somewhere.
I used to enjoy the fact that they were all phone shots, just to see how far phones had come, but they are giving out awards to shots that reek of thousands of pounds of DSLR and software. I'll use a bit of HDR if the light is shit (in the UK the light is always shit) but really never spend more than 60 seconds on it. It defeats the object. The DSLRs take awesome pics but it's not really what the platform was conceived for.
Also you have to wonder if someone actually likes your pic or whether they just select all the comments at once and do a bulk "Like". That's why I try to drop in an actual comment when I can.
I do still enjoy the randomness of it though. I have a Japanese truck and follow some nutters there and in Russia who have took it to the next level (in Kanji, of course). I like how you can find people who have tagged your old obscure stomping grounds and the fact you get random people following you back. Sergio Mendes? Is it really him or some favella tea-boy doing the clicks?
The only reason I go on much now is to search out friends and you fools posts. But it so much damn work without straight up chronological order...
Apologizes on my part of dslr post. Photography is one of the few hobbies I have left, so it's a way to still keep going and not just fall in nothing but cell phone shots. Tho, I no longer have a dslr... Mirrorless yo! Less weight is great!!!!
Jimstagram launching next week, just need a small loan of £10,000,000.