The Benefits of Instagram

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Jacqueline Rangel L.Moshene Engish 1302 3/31/14 The Power of Instagram Do you want a fast and easy way to share pictures and videos with all your family and friends? Instagram is an easy way to upload all those vacation photos, group photos, special event photos and all those selfies with a breeze. With this app, users can easily use their built in cameras from their phone or use their own personal computer to upload photos. Instagram provides professional editing tools which includes adding a digital filter to one’s photo, adjusting the darkness and brightness, and adding a custom border. It makes it extremely easy to share with other Instagram users and to share on other social networking websites such as Facebook. The use of Instagram is really simple that all these steps can be done on an individual’s smart phone or on their personal computer, no complicated procedures are required from the users, basically just includes taking photos or videos, editing photos, sharing photos and following other Instagram users’ photo streams. With all these sharing of photos to various users, where is the privacy in this? Users have the option of making their profile private or public. With putting the one’s profile on private, other users must request to follow their photo stream and it’s up to the user to accept their request or not. Though these are many positives about Instagram, there are some negative. Quite a few negative outcomes come from when a user decides to keep their photo stream public. Leaving it public opens the door to unwanted users and many of your personal photos being shared to the world. Users need to surely be careful on what they share on Instagram so that their photo cannot be used for other unwanted purposes. Instagram has become an amazing app to easily create professional looking photos at your fingertips. With its easy instructions,
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