I find it interesting that an app for photo sharing is considered better for sharing updates with friends, than a service such as Facebook designed for sharing updates with friends.
Similarly I was shocked to discover that people chat on Instagram, despite many good messaging apps.
It’s the networks right? I have friends who organise parties on gist.github.com and that works pretty well... for a certain group.
Nay, it's the limitations. On Facebook you can share dumb articles from news sites and meme sites, articles that you never read, you just agree with the title. On Instagram it is not so easy to do this, so people share real stuff about their lives instead.
Even if it is a curation, Instagram is at least about my friends, and not about dumb news articles and memes. (Facebook was not always that way, I used to love it when it was essentially a book of open letters to friends. Alas, article/meme just turned it into an even-worse reddit.)
Similarly I was shocked to discover that people chat on Instagram, despite many good messaging apps.
It’s the networks right? I have friends who organise parties on gist.github.com and that works pretty well... for a certain group.