I'll be honest, when Instagram first launched, I just couldn't see the point. I had a Twitter account, a Facebook account, and I could share photos on both of those, so why would I want another account, another app, with features I could already find in other apps. I thought it'd be a fab, and it was a good six months until I gave into peer pressure and signed up. Even then, I didn't really get into Instagram until last year, it took a long time for me to get my head around.
Since it's inception five years ago (can you believe it's been five years?!), Instagram has changed a vast amount. It's gone from a platform where people shared blurry, out of focus, badly lit photos of their lives, to a hub of inspiration and beautiful content.
And now we are being saturated with content instructing us how to create the illusive 'perfect Instagram account', with colour themes, appropriate hashtags, and even content ideas. There are apps and sites where you can track your followers activity, and there are even people who make their living off of beautiful accounts.
There's a lot of debate over what you should be posting to your account, people seem to be firmly on the 'aspirational content' side, beautifully shot and lit imagery of pinterest-worthy homes, perfectly planned flatlays and outfit of the days, whilst others take Instagram a lot less seriously, and just share their life, as it happens, unfiltered.
I guess my question to you is, which side do you sit on? I think I sit somewhere in the middle. I pick my Instagram content quite carefully, and I only share my favourite images, but it's not all flat lays and pugs, there's a few snippets of my life too, whether that's just a bottle of cider, or a giant to do list. I enjoy Instagram, I love looking through beautiful accounts, and I enjoy curating images for my feed. But you won't see me taking hashtagging seriously, or not posting an image I love just because it doesn't fit my colour scheme.
I'd love to know your thoughts!
I recently tried the whole 'theme' thing but it didn't work out because my theme was super bright and then I wanted to post pictures of my graduation which were red and black... Themes look lovely but they limit what you can post so much! I like to still post snippets of my life on there because I have my blog for the exclusively beautiful and well lit photographs. For me Instagram is kind of an extension of that which shows a bit more of what I do (plus lots of my friends follow me on there and they're actually interested in my life, not a flatlay of some random items). I still can't believe that some people can actually make a living through instagram.
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I love instagram for everything but I've recently started using a theme :) I've decided to go for colourful and bright and I'm so happy with the way it looks. I'll definitely be sticking at it for as long as possible!
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