Thing 10 Sharing Photos

As I mentioned in the previous post, I already have Instagram and Snapchat.

So, I will just state my opinions of these two applications.

Instagram:

• Good for instant posts
• Fun for Throwback Thursdays (posts of old photos from last week to 10 years ago)
• Increasingly commerical
• Can discover and creep on literally thousands of people
• Celebrity accounts can be fun to look at
• The fashion accounts are interesting to me
• I keep my followers private
• searching hastags (#) can be informative and time wasting and amusing all in one

Snapchat:

• perfect for sending quick pics to close family and friends
• very limited to no advertisments
• not for a broad audience unless you add many people you don't know
• smaller amount of users than Instagram
• longer video uploads than Instagram
• short term appeal vs Instagram that keeps your photos

OVERALL

I prefer each app for it's own merit. I like looking at random Instagram accounts for fashion and decorating ideas, and seeing friends' photos of their personal lives.
I prefer Snapchat for fun, sassy photos that I see for a couple seconds and then forget about.

I see Instagram as being the photosharing tool that would be applicable for a professional library setting.
However, if we had a savvy media department that could get Snapchatters to add the library, it would be pretty neat. I doubt that would happen anytime soon though! People like having only their 'real' friends on Snapchat. Snapchat feels like a more intimate app than Instagram.