That’d be FUN

I did that once, a few months ago; it was the local carnival and I took at least one photo of most of the floats and street performers as I stood at the roadside… and there were almost 150 of them. #cringe

I didn’t think about the implications of using Instagram to shoot them at the time. I just wanted to capture as much of what was happening as I could, and my phone was the most convenient way of doing this.

As it turned out, I only got one (jokey) complaint, and quite a few likes from all sorts of people—some friends, some new contacts I’d not seen before.

In hindsight, I would never have spammed my friends’ timelines like this intentionally. (And I probably should have used a dedicated camera instead, too.) It’s just ever-so-slightly annoying that every photo gets pushed to every follower on Instagram automatically. But then Instagram is a conversation and not a collection, as you say.

I do prefer Instagram as a default handy camera, though. In this instance, the filters really helped pull detail out of the night time shots on the fly, making them more exaggerated and fun.

But it would’ve been nice to have kept them all separate by default and only then push my favourites into the stream later.

Would I ever expect to see “Instagram” as a publish option, like Twitter and Facebook, within the Instagram app? Probably not, but it might make it all the more popular if did  allow just that little bit extra of fine control—privacy (at least perceived) or otherwise.

neat.