The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience

Re:The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience by onion2k on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @05:21AM (#19084103)

In the early days of Instagram I had an idea for a bot that would tag photos with the approximate value of the things in them. The scenes mentioned in the article wouldn't really be 'taggable', but someone's fancy dinner or handbag or car certainly would. The beauty of it would be to distill what Instagram is about (living an enviable life) down to a very obvious message. If it worked the next step would be to include a "league table" position, eg "Your post is the 10,500,312th most expensive on Instagram."

I think I just enjoy ruining other people's fun a bit too much.

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Re:The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience by pjc50 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @06:57AM (#19084510)

I suspect you'd find you'd created a monster of gamification, and would end up with a KLF-style pile of burning money at the top of the league table.

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Re:The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience by lbotos on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @10:51AM (#19086388)

Hilariously Ad posts on instagram now will let you click items in the image and get their price. Half way there. :)

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Re:The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience by CharlesColeman on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:17PM (#19087305)

It's sort of like the photo captions in a fashion magazine, where they list all the clothing items the models are wearing and their price.

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Re:The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience by asdff on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:22PM (#19118288)

I've seen good comparisons between instagram and sears catalogues.

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Re:The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience by narrator on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:41PM (#19087502)

So what else are you supposed to post about besides living an enviable life that people are going to look at to fantasize about ? It's like I remember some charlatan psychic being interviewed who said that all people care about is "when they are going to get paid and when they are going to get laid".

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Re:The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience by kkarakk on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @07:12AM (#19084578)

rich kids of instagram/the internet already did this(and has been very much coopted). they didn't rank people but you know what they were doing

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Re:The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience by Taylor_OD on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:36PM (#19087454)

I love this idea. I'm sure some people would push back on it but most want people to know whatever they are showing off cost.

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