Although I have been following your Instagram account for a long time, I did not know that you have reached 12k followers. Congratulations.
Instagram is a very important advertising tool but unfortunately 90% of its users use it to promote a fake world where there is only beauty, high aesthetics and luxury. Many times it can create the illusion in users that if someone is not handsome, perfect and rich he does not really deserve attention.
Young girls are looking for prince charmy and young boys are looking for the hot chick that their eyes has used to see on instagram. But most of what we see on Instagram is fake. User photos with perfect face, perfect skin and perfect life. Makeup filters and specific poses make the user live in a second fake world which is very sad.
On the other hand tik tok which is the new trend in social media lately, I think is way better. People having fun, socializing and showing who they really are because in a video it is more difficult to hide yous "flaws". Most of its users are being their selves and enjoy socialize with people that they like them for what they really are.
Crypto social media are not widespread yet and most of the people who are using them, do it for the earnings.
My favorite platform so far is whaleshares. It is indeed decentralized and I enjoy the tipping system although I used to hate it when it started.
Yesterday I started using leofinance and I enjoyed the engagement that my post had. I don't know if this will continue happening at my upcoming posts but I really liked and I didn't look at my posts earnings at all.
So if we stop thinking about earnings, our experience will change. We will vote for posts that we really like and our engagement level will increase. As a result we will enjoy spending our time at crypto social media, and we will grow faster. Most of the user that are coming to hive, do it because someone show them the trending page and they came thinking that they will earn money very quickly. I think we must find a different approach to persuade users to sign up at hive because people leave very quickly if they do not achieve to gain big rewards. If the rewards were not visible I think hive could have huge potentials.
I agree that Instagram has many superficial users and that it promotes luxury living, but not to a 90% extent.
To me, it is a very important tool/means of communication to many people using it.
Regarding the account of my city - I could not handle the fact that all other major cities of Crete had city accounts with thousands of followers and all major accounts (100K+) posting about Greece - would not share images of my city.
Well, they still dont, but at least I am there to post the ones that are more representative
I applaud tiktok, they had this amazing idea and their developers are doing an amazing job - making everything super user friendly - so anyone (even 13 year old kids) can enter and create content
Not that I agree with 13 year old having social media, but it is a reality
User friendliness is what the platforms need to work on for mass adoption. I have not been active in whaleshares because I did not understand how it was working after some time and I got absolutely lost
(If anyone has the time, I would gladly take a short/quick lesson :))
Reg. Instagram, I am now active with my personal account - I enjoy it, I can post more than one photos on a daily basis (something that I cannot do with blockchain social media because it would be like .. milking the chain) and it helps me express my self plus get to know many other photographers with similar interests from all over the world.
The issue is that the more people there are 'friends'/'following' etc, the more time you need to spend with them - so you need to know your limits and to have specific goals (even if it is just for fun)
I disagree with hiding the rewards from hive, but I believe that communities are a great asset and they need to be worked on separately / bringing new users for becoming a part of something they love (i.e. sketch, music, photography, blogging, science etc)