Things I Hate About Instagram

It seems like you can't communicate a point of view or any information at all unless you're pointing at floating text in a choreographed routine

Half the stuff on my feed is now screenshots of Tweets. And then, the inclusivity-minded among them, have text descriptions of what is in the screen capture.

That filter was probably my favourite and it just up and disappeared

Linking to another site used to be near impossible. Now it's possible, but not that easy or straightforward.

So many features have been added, that I might as well be on Facebook. No more clean simple interface, lots of bells and whistles, yet as #2 & # 5 illustrate it's also lacking in other ways.

It feels like half the images and videos that show up in my feed are not from accounts I actually follow, but ones that Instagram thinks I *should* follow. Please let me curate my own feed without shoving stuff down my throat.

A necessary evil, I suppose, but it seems like businesses that are posting ads have a lot more power in their posting abilities than regular users.

Temporary videos, with no preview. I get a notification that an account I follow has posted a new story. I click the notification, and it's something that is too trivial to make the main feed as a permanent post.

There are people who have Instagram as their principal platform and career. There are TV shows about such people where Instagram is the only social media worth mentioning. When I got on the platform, I did it out of a sense of obligation to promote my blog, back when blogging was more of a trend.

I still see these, and they just make me hungry or leave me indifferent.