Instagram as organizational tool – Conclusion
None of us really knew what to expect before entering this virtual Summer Academy. ⅓ sad not to be in Berlin, ⅓ confused and scared of the virtual awkwardness, ⅓ curious what this virtual context would unveil. We were lucky and directly got along the first day. All very different but all motivated to make this new type of group work a success we all enjoyed our topic and everyday revealed new aspects of the technology we didn’t think about in the past. Everyday was full of improvised “field work” and of constructive discussions, making us aware of so many “hidden” facets of this technology we use in our daily life.
Over the past few days we have analysed the power of Instagram as an organizational tool in today’s society. This platform, which has developed to become one of the most used social apps worldwide and which has proven to be modular and to adapt in times of crisis. With an ever growing range of features, Instagram is today a platform on which practically everything is shared. And there are definitely many things to come in terms of development and influence of Instagram on our way to organize life and social relations.
It was extremely interesting to study the evolution of the social, the perception of the self and the “hidden” not so hidden influence of instagram on our taste, our shopping habits, our thoughts and feelings. Both giving the feeling of safety and belonging as well as evil and destructive Instagram has so many different faces, we unconsciously know but ignore to be part of a bigger thing.
With love,
Aurora De Martin, Emaele de Quatrebarbes, Lara Schulte, Marco Ubalducci & Selma Vuckic
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Instagram – a utopia or dystopia?
Inspired by today’s lecturers, Massimo Warglien, Costanza Sartoris & Simon Denny, this blog post will take on a different perspective on Instagram’s role during COVID-19 and in life in general. The focus goes beyond the intended and unintended usage ways only, towards a view on Instagram’s potential for the future as well. But let’s start with the COVID-19 situation first before we move on!
Do you feel observed on Instagram?
Today, we wanted to stop seeing and analysing Instagram from our perspective only, but wanted to find out how the user feels about Instagram usage during COVID-19. The increased Instagram usage during COVID-19 goes along with the increased transparency of everyone's life on the platform. Everyone posts private pictures and insight about their lockdown experiences and social distanced lives. However, this transparency can also be used to be observed, controlled and monitored by the social environment to check whether the rules of the government are respected or not. This is why we asked our friends on Instagram how they feel about the instagram usage during COVID-19 and these are the answers of our italian, danish, and swiss friends:
Even though most of the participants did not feel more observed on Instagram during COVID-19 Pandemic, there are 85/239 participants, which do feel observed. However, this survey can not be done anonymously, so we think that there could be some answers among the “No”, which are socially desired instead of reflecting the real experiences. So the hidden numbers might be even higher. This finding indicates that the happenings around COVID-19 may have an impact on the way certain people interact on the platform and the way they present themselves or use tags on Instagram. But how?
The use of “Stay home”: a help or a trend?
The 21st of March Instagram launched a “stay home” function in order to encourage users to stay home during Covid-19 pandemic. As Instagram wrote, the intention of this “sticker” was to allow users to share their photos or videos in a “shared Instagram story”, in which people can see how they are staying home and staying safe.
Paul “BizPaul” Ince, founder of the UK based digital marketing agency Likemind Media, was one of the first to try this function; he pointed out that it is fundamental that everyone helps spread the message because people are not listening and taking seriously the necessity to stay home in this crisis. In this sense, the mentality is that people need to see others they know doing the right thing. Nevertheless, the general impression was that this technology is being used in a way it was not intended. In fact, a lot of different users use this function just to show that they are following the rules, capturing a moment in which they are at home but, in reality, in other moments of the day, they might do the exact opposite. In this way, the original intention of Instagram is transformed in a trend of sharing the proof of respecting social distance but just for posting and not for the real intention of being responsible. However, even if this function may have been used “not as intended” there are other COVID-19 related functions, which exceeded expectations as the following paragraph will show.
Crowdfunding promotion: how Instagram can help to sustain charity initiatives
Mainly during the last months we attended a lot of charity initiatives. In all over the world a lot of people donate money in order to sustain healthcare systems and states to face Covid-19. Some of these charity initiatives have been promoted on Instagram. Many actors, singers, companies, influencers have started crowdfunding initiatives for charitable purposes. Thanks to these projects there were built hospital wards, there were bought sanitary materials and were sustained spending on additional medical staff. How was this possible? It is very simple. By a photo, by a story, by a live stream. We attended how some Instagram functions were employed for public healthcare. We have had the possibility to see how through a single photo or video it had been possible to build new intensive therapies, rather than new ventilators for hospitals. These initiatives, on the other hand, have demonstrated that facing common difficulties people support themselves overwhelming them.
Let’s think about how it has become much easier, in comparison to the past decades, supporting charity initiatives. Now, throughout a few clicks, we can donate as much as we want. In Italy, for example, many famous people, such as the designer Giorgio Armani, have supported charitable initiatives supporting doctors, nurses, hospitals against covid-19 even through the use of instagram. The key image of this campaign, promoted on almost all social media, has become a doctor who holds Italy in her arms. However, as we are going to see later, there is a much darker side of Instagram we might have never thought about.
The unintended evil side of instagram
The first thing that came into our mind when thinking of evil are Terrorists. These kinds of organized groups can unconsciously influence people’s political and religious beliefs over platforms like Instagram. Through likes, comments and other interactions users may be led towards certain shady pages, which may increase the likeliness of attracting users into such organizations and getting in contact with them.
Instagram is attempting to restrict these kinds of movements by monitoring content on certain profiles and by reporting those to the authorities (see picture below). However, certain bad intentions are over Instagram’s control and can lead to parallel networks, the social platform has no direct access to.
(Retrieved from Instagram terms and conditions)
(Retrieved from Ad Age - November 22, 2019)
But these are only the things we can imagine of today. That is why we started to think about what could be future developments of platforms like Instagram.
Instagram - a utopia or dystopia?
New technological achievements not only bring advantages but also dangers. Many fear a "dehumanization" and the loss of their own individuality through the virtual business with the data. Therefore it is important to think about possible utopias and dystopias.
What could future functions and influences from Instagram look like?
The online world is increasingly determined by the number of clicks, likes and interactions. But what if there will soon no longer be an offline world and we are permanently online? As already shown in the Netflix series Black Mirror in 2016, a utopia could be that likes, shares and reviews completely determine our lives and become a kind of currency that determines the socio-economic value or status of a person.
(“Nosedive”, 2016. 8flix.com)
(“Homo Digitalis”, 2018. InnoVisions.com)
Adaptive avatars and holograms are already responding to our emotional needs today and increasingly in the future, robots make everyday life easier for us and even serve as sex partners. We strive to become smarter and more durable through technologies: But what does all this do to us as humans? The consequences of digitization and its often-associated social isolation can already be seen in Japan, for example. People develop fear of real human interaction, robots take on human functions, “friends” can be rented by hour, fictional characters are loved, and holograms are married. We are continuously developing from Homo Sapiens to Homo Digitalis.
In addition to topics like high automation, digitization and increasing networking, we will also deal heavily with the handling and analysis of large amounts of data in the future. Chat services, such as Wechat in China, continue to develop and offer users the option of new payment methods and ID-cards that can be connected to your social media accounts - and therefore have more and more data. In addition, the manipulation of i.e. knowledge, information sources, image and video material or news are no longer visions of the future. But who knows, maybe Trump's election and Brexit were just the beginning?
Share your thoughts with us about future developments of Instagram by commenting below!
Aurora De Martin, Emaele de Quatrebarbes, Lara Schulte, Marco Ubalducci & Selma Vuckic
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Instagram – the (not so) hidden influencer building up the business
When one business model is not enough.
The following paragraphs are a collection of thoughts from all group members, who have covered different perspectives regarding the influence of Instagram on the behavior of its users. We focus primarily on the influence of companies, algorithms, advertising and content creators on users. Enjoy reading it!
Instagram helps nudging users
Can we imagine how much the way of doing business has changed since the advent of social media? How the need to feel connected has changed our habits and perception of reality? We do not always bear in mind that due to this freedom we probably have lost some freedom. Especially in this paragraph, we are going to briefly analyse the behavior economic perspective. So how is nudging, which is a way for influencing people through indirect suggestions, employed by companies, politicians. This does not only mean a mere change in behavior, but goes deeper by touching parts inherent in our character and our way of thinking. We do not realise it, but it happens.
This aspect is very interesting if we consider the way by which companies can influence us. John Davidson in “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism exposes tech giants' social engineering”, Financial Review (2019), suggests that advertisers would use the behavioural predictions to try to modify user behaviour, getting the users to buy what the advertisers were selling by approaching the users with a proposition that “foresee the future” and is well-timed. Surveillance capitalism practices are spreading a lot in these years, this is also a result of companies entrusting on social media.
Let's think about how many companies started their Instagram business. Let’s compare with a company that was born 30 years ago. Which is the difference? An important one is that now companies can affect, often indirectly (nudging), not only consumer preferences. They can also influence the opinion of possible investors, the market itself
Let's think about how many people have been connected to Instagram during the covid period. Not only the business world may have taken benefits from this. In fact, we can think about how many politicians, for example in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, have "entered the voters' houses". Instagram has become a social space for advocates of women's rights, for example. A room where the minorities have had their spaces.
Therefore, we realise that everything is interconnected. That there are not necessary boundaries between politics and economics, for example. Data and information that, often involuntarily, we provide partially define who we are. For this reason, they can be used as a very important asset to develop business.
Instagram decides, who deserves your attention
With the increase of Instagram’s user base, there was a need to structure interaction within this platform. Even if we have the freedom to choose our friends on Instagram, it seems that the platform controls our social relations tremendously. Even if Instagram’s algorithm supports us to handle the immense content, which our friends or “followers” are continuously sharing with us, the collected data can be seen as an “behaviour surplus” to modulate with whom we are interacting with. Of course Instagram’s algorithm is kept a secret. However, when we are looking into our account and take a closer look into our social interactions, it seems that people who are similar to us and who share the same interest, follow the same people and interact more often with you are placed more prominently in the feed or in the story and live section, which creates a filter bubble within your social network. It limits you to interact with people you are not often in touch with. These people are easily lost in the immense data set you are faced with everyday. This happens hidden and unconsciously without you noticing it. At this point this may seem very harmless. However, when we start to think about it, we realize that it is an intervention and limitation of the freedom of choice. Even if Instagram’s user-generated data may have positive effects such as service improvement, new functions and increased convenience with an easier interface, the collected data can be used to restrict us and nudge us to the way Instagram expects us to see content and interact.
Not only peer-to-peer communication seems to be affected by the algorithm. The Instagram algorithm controls the attention of the potential consumers for advertisements on the platform as well. Based on the user-generated content, Instagram can enable target marketing, while content is only sent prominently to the right user base. As the attention economy theory claims, user’s or consumer’s attention within the plattfom can be seen as a source of income. It is Instagram, who has the power over which brand is getting this attention from the user base and the resulting income. Consequently, this power of Instagram over attention and control can lead to the power of Instagram over our social and consumption behavior and as well.
Influencers and paid posts
The more interaction we have with the product, the more familiar and confident we feel purchasing it. This is the reason why influencer marketing entered on Instagram. Influencers are people who have built a large and engaged following on Instagram; their followers trust them and, consequently, their opinions, feeling like they know them personally and considering their recommendations as they were friends. For those reasons, the emergence of Instagram influencers opened up huge opportunities for businesses looking to authentically market their products to their target audience, and thus the “paid post” phenomenon was born. As a matter of fact, in 2019 influencer marketing on Instagram generated over $2.3 billion and 32.3 million brand sponsored influencer posts were registered.
Even if it is mandatory to specify that a post is sponsored, making clear to the consumer the commercial intention, sometimes it does not happen; in this sense, people are misled and they even trust more a post because they believe it is not paid. Fortunately, heavy penalties were introduced for these actions. Moreover, nowadays the frequency of advertisements seen in the average stream appeared to dramatically increase; instead of seeing an advertisement two or three times per session, users have started seeing an ad post every five to six photos. In this sense, users are bombarded by endless posts which they don’t require. In fact, influencers’ feed is overwhelmed by ads and their daily life content takes second place. So the question is, how much can an influencer exceed the limits in order to make ads a truly recommended product and not just a profit?
How does Instagram control thoughts and feelings?
Instagram is a platform, which reflects people’s lives, or at least what they want other people to perceive of their lives. Through the constant comparison with other users and other lives, people are judging and being judged based on the content they see and upload. The frequent and intensive users of the platform are relying on likes and comments to give them an impression of how other people perceive them. This constant need to be seen as being “beautiful”, “cool”, “rich”, “popular”, “interesting”, can very quickly become addictive and put an immense pressure on individuals. This need for other’s approval enhances psychological pressure and can lead to intense depression, anxiety and a decrease in self-esteem.
Instagram also enhances the obsession of oneself and therefore awakens the narcissist in each of us. Increasing the fixation of our own reflection. In that sense, Instagram is intensifying the need for social answering. Even though the human being wasn’t made to receive social acknowledgement through digital acceptance. Each human being has a need for physical closeness and in-person social answering in order to satisfy their social needs. The social answering users perceive through Instagram comes with an important feeling of void and emptiness, as the social acknowledgement one receives through the digital platform isn’t technically “real”. Thus, distorting the feeling of what is real and what isn’t.
Another aspect of Instagram, is the exclusive reliance on others' opinions of you. This can be related to Sartre’s famous quote “l’enfer c’est les autres” (Hell is other people), in which people only perceive themselves through the eyes of others. Instagram is only giving you a glance of others perception of you, which can in many situations distort the feeling you have of yourself.
All in all, Instagram has an enormous impact on how people feel and think, especially about themselves.
Liveness as business model
As mentioned, the algorithm always prioritizes content from accounts whose users often interact. That's why followers and content creators or influencers have to often comment on the posts or react through stories, so the algorithm recognizes that both users are "close" to each other.
From my own experience I can say that I often feel used and reduced to being a consumer only on Instagram. Because in the end most of the posts and accounts are simply “advertising spaces/slots” that want to bind me to their profile and their advertised products through a fake and pretended interest in my person. But isn´t that exactly the twist of Instagram? I am expecting it to be authentic. I am convinced that the other profiles and content creators do have a real interest in my answer on the comment, my feelings and that they do care about me and my stories. But most of them just want to sell stuff and make money with users.
While watching stories and reading posts we tend to forget that Instagram is a business. In recent years, the original business model of the photo and video sharing platform has changed to that of an online marketing and advertising business model. The simplicity, a strong visual component and a high usage rate make Instagram the advertising platform of today. Furthermore, the business model of instagram has been and is based on a number of tools and features it offers, such as filters, stories, IGTV and live sessions. The live sessions can therefore be seen as another link and a push for the interaction and belief of the users in the authenticity of the creator. They thus serve as an opportunity to bind users even more to the platform.
Aurora De Martin, Emaele de Quatrebarbes, Lara Schulte, Marco Ubalducci & Selma Vuckic
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We did it for the ‘gram and went LIVE!
Wow, these were intense live sessions in the Haniel Summer School so far! After a quick wrap up about the way we have been working together and a short brainstorming session to understand how we can improve the way we interact virtually, we started to dig deeper into liveness on Instagram. So, we actually went “live”.
My first netnography experience while hosting a live session
After a long discussion about who was going to go “live” on Instagram to get the whole experience of netnography, I was only one click and less than five seconds away from being “live”. I was scared but at the same time I had my group in the back, supporting me with questions, which made me feel less alone and exposed. As fast as I got online, people started to join and leave “our” live session continuously. I thought this is going to be a very social experiment with real time interaction and enhanced positive emotions, which are able to fight the negative emotions we experienced during COVID-19 so far. However, at the beginning I felt terribly exposed and lonely and started to giggle around because it was uncomfortable. Even when I was “live” with 10 other people, I felt like I was alone, talking to a device or to my image and not to my social network. So I started to interact with the people to understand how they experience the liveness of Instagram by asking questions. However, even if I was asking questions, this made the whole social experience even harder because I felt there was a time shift between my questions and the answers slowly popping up in the comment section. I was very thankful for these few people trying to interact with me over this “live” session by commenting. At this moment, I tried to directly address the participants to feel connected to them and less alone but it did not work. However, even if I should have felt connected to the social, I felt very disconnected at this moment.
The feeling of the “live” guest
Being a “visitor” in the live session of my group member and this time paying attention to my feelings as a guest, made me aware of how “intouchable” one becomes when the spotlight isn’t on oneself. All the pressure is on the host. I felt particularly connected to the host during the live session as we were directly in contact through the Zoom meeting. Yet, I didn’t feel the urge to directly interact with her. The fact that the guest isn’t able to talk, be seen and only write, makes one quite invisible within the crowd. In a way, the host is interacting with the crowd and not with you directly, thus reducing the need for any specific interaction. Some guests might think “someone else is going to answer the question” or “let’s see what people say”. Hence taking any spotlight away from oneself and leaving the responsibility to others.
From my perspective the meaning of social interaction is very unclear. The word “inter-action” rooting from the term “between” and “action”, loses its sense here. When being a guest, the “action” is taking place on the other side of the screen. In that sense, the action isn’t taking place where I am, but solely where the live host is. Thus, blurring the sense of “social” and giving loneliness and interaction another meaning.
Being a guest in a live session feels similar to watching a live show on TV, you feel closer to the show than if it wasn’t “live”, however you aren’t part of it. The host’s emotions are difficult to grasp and so is the feeling of empathy and connection.
Instagram has made the interaction easier for the public. It is however still a work in progress until people feel comfortable with interacting directly with the host. I think it is still too new and unknown and will probably take some time to become a normality.
Live sessions as a dichotomy?
In the last few weeks and months of the pandemic, there has been an increased use of live sessions on Instagram. On the one hand, the focus is on the participation, motivation and connection of users and therefore live sessions do function as a link to the feeling of community on Instagram. While they offer access to a broad range of topics, most of the live sessions are used particularly often to e.g. organize cooking events, reading lectures, watching series together or doing sports and yoga classes. It is striking that these are mostly very everyday and relatively unspectacular activities and it feels as if these sessions are intended to serve, among other things, as a replacement for lost leisure activities, entertainment and to increase a community feeling. In addition, live sessions are supposed to offer the opportunity to engage in a direct exchange with the audience and convey emotions in “real time”. Furthermore, it should open up a deep insight into the privacy and the premises of the live-host vis-á-vis.
Because the live hosts are always in focus, even if they add someone to the session, they have a central position with a lot of influence, power and responsibility. It remains to be discussed whether this might even give them the status of or be compared to “a priest in a sermon”.
On the other hand, it is an opportunity for companies and entrepreneurs, such as musicians, comedians, personal trainers and many others to continue working despite the pandemic. The actually necessary physical presence of the user and worker is replaced by a virtual presence.
Watching a live training session
Before COVID-19 came, I used to go two to three times a week to the gym; after a few weeks of stopping it, I decided to try to follow a “home training session” through the Instagram live function. I chose to follow Kirsty Godso’s live workout, pushed by positive feedback that I have read about her kind of training. A lot of people said that she was very motivating and they have started to train at home thanks to her Instagram lives. What I felt was against expectations. She was really good at explaining how to make the correct positions in every exercise but I didn’t find the motivation that I have, when I go to the gym. In fact, I felt very lonely even if thousands of people were watching the same live session with me from all different parts of the world. As a matter of fact, I didn’t see anyone performing with me but I just imagined it happening. Moreover, I found the home environment distracting, like the sound of the doorbell and my dog that thought I wanted to play with her. For those reasons, I personally believe that in a fitness studio it is easier to find motivation and be inspired by other people who are sweating with you. Nevertheless, reading the feedback of some live training sessions, I have understood that many people who have never trained in their life have found inspiration from these “virtual trainers" to approach sport.
From the point of view of the trainer, I think live sessions have been a sort of “salvation”. In fact, trainers could not work since all the gyms were closed, giving them a lot of free time to spend with “virtual class” of people who wanted to be trained. They had the possibility to show their capabilities and, in some cases, after the reopening of the gyms, they started to do online training sessions in other platforms requiring a small sum of money, which, of course, is not comparable with the amount required by a personal trainer physically present. This formula seems to work also because there are people who are not feeling already prepared to come back to the gym since the virus is still circulating. However, we don’t know what will happen once it will be over.
The business live session
Being on the side of the spectator is quite always easier than being the “leading actor”. Even when we are talking about business topics, as in the other Instagram environment such as Politics, it is sometimes difficult to perceive which is the leading point of view of the spokesman. The first feeling is like “I have lost myself in some dark place, I cannot understand what they are talking about”. In the first instance, even for a management expert, it is not so easy to identify the leading thought / idea. On the other hand, it seems paradoxical but Instagram has helped to create during business seminars we can hear complex and specific terms such as “Innovative management”, “leading strategies”, “target price oriented”. The first time I followed a business stream on Instagram I noticed that many terms had been simplified. In fact, Instagram has facilitated the spread of streams, simplifying their content even for those who are not experts in the field. Or better, spokesmans have simplified their seminars content, adapting them to everybody. It is very interesting and useful participating in live streaming in which in a few minutes you are updated about stock exchanges trends, news about Zoom exponential growing value of shares and so on. Another key aspect is that Instagram business lives do not replace business seminars, lessons ect. They are useful for being updated about world business news. The question is, how will this change after the “COVID-age”? Will instagram also be implemented to make room for the business world too?
At this point, we would like to invite you to share your Instagram “live” experiences with us and tell us how this socio-technical moment has affected you? Comment in the section below!
Aurora De Martin, Emaele de Quatrebarbes, Lara Schulte, Marco Ubalducci & Selma Vuckic
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Fight social distancing virtually – Do it with the ‘gram.
In time of COVID-19 and social distancing, technologies such as Instagram have not only supported us in much needed social interactions but provided new ways to organize the daily life of the user base digitally. When we started to look into the development of instagram’s features, how instagram is organizing our lives during COVID-19 and the increase in usage of the Live Function, we see a potential to further investigate the live function of Instagram from a socio-material perspective.
With the emergence of Covid-19 and the global human isolation, people started to find new ways to interact with each other. “Live” streaming on Instagram being one of them. Although this feature was not used as much before the pandemic, the need for human interaction has increased the “live” usage by 70% globally over the past few months (business insider, 2020). The use of “live” videos has enabled sports coaches, cooks, businesses, politicians and more to stay in contact with their public and stimulate human interaction. To enable people to still have activities other than their work and families, instagram users started to create live content for people to pursue their daily sport practices, their passion for cooking and to keep up with the outside world.
https://www.wmagazine.com/story/coronavirus-quarantine-instagram-live-trend-celebrities/
However, before we start discussing if and how Instagram’s “live” function is organized and organizing or if and how the usage is affecting us, we want to take a step back and dive into the historic development of Instagram’s feature set to provide a better understanding of how Instagram’s potentially evolved.
2010 – The photo-sharing platform
In 2010, Instagram emerged as a photo-sharing platform (Lup, Trup & Rosenthal, 2015, p. 247) with the idea to support the cultural trend of pictorial communication. At the beginning the feature set focused on taking and editing pictures and sharing them on a profile (Sheldon & Bryant, 2016, p. 89). However, Instagram has fastly reached an attractive user base, and added possibilities to organize the growing user generated content through hashtags for categorizing and making pictures visible to the right user base (see Sheldon & Bryant, 2016, p. 89). The popularity of Instagram, especially among younger generations, seems to be based on the continuous user-driven as well as user-focused innovations and is reflected in the fast-growing user base, which attracted the attention of competing social networking services.
2012 - Instagram acquisition
In April 2012 Instagram was acquired by Facebook. The original idea of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, was to maintain Instagram independent bringing the team aboard, but this idea evaporated from the beginning because it was so tiny that it needed Facebook’s resources to stay afloat. In fact, at that time, Instagram only had 13 employed people and so far did not generate any revenue. The users were “only” 30 000 before the acquisition and, just after one month, they became 50 000. Nevertheless, the problem of revenues remained. For this reason, Emily White, the director of operations, said that it was necessary to concentrate in “capture and share the world’s moments”, which effectively was the “cool” factor that allowed Instagram to get thousands users in such a short time. In fact, only one year later, users became 150 000. From this moment, Instagram introduced sponsored post advertising which allowed it to get more revenues. Moreover, new features were introduced: first of all, in May 2013, “photo tagging” and “photo of you”, which were already present on Facebook, were added and, after one month, Instagram also launched the possibility of sharing videos of 3-15 seconds. However, there were much more changes to come.
2013 - The battle against Snapchat
In 2013, Facebook made an offer to Snapchat's founders to buy it for $ 3 billion. However, these refused, whereupon Mark Zuckerberg simply copied the main ideas of Snapchat and added them to Instagram. If imitation is the highest form of recognition, as Oscar Wilde once remarked, Instagram has really praised Snapchat the last few years. The similarities to the stories function on Snapchat are undeniable. Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom also admitted that Snapchat deserves all the credit, but also pointed out that it was not about who invented which feature first. It's about a new format and how to use it in your network and make it something unique. Videos on Instagram have recently become a central component of every content strategy. After the maximum length for videos has recently been increased to 60 seconds, Instagram is expanding the video function. The increasing number of Instagram users has led the social network to already introduce Instagram Live Videos in spring 2017, following in the footsteps of its big brother Facebook.
Aurora De Martin, Emaele de Quatrebarbes, Lara Schulte, Marco Ubalducci & Selma Vuckic
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