Amen, we are sick and tired of this "tease" we want thorough and informative content, who cares if its an hour video?, if it means things are NOT time-lapsed, and given due care, showing the subscribers you care about Quality of content, not just a quick gratification and glad to hear that other people hate this too :-) ; PS: I don't hate the 'down the ground glass' videos, like done with hasselblads, they are fun, NOT training or review video's so this is acceptable format for them.
Insta, X, Threads, Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, Vero, Fotoapp, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, 500px, Glass, ... and on and on ...
Choosing where to focus and put effort, guessing/risking where you will find your crowd is hard! FOMO looms large as well as the thought that I was so close to finding "my" place but missed it by that much 🤏. How many of us have all these apps but only sign in to a few and the rest sit untouched?
Yes it’s hard to keep up. I always say to people to just choose one or two platforms to post on and get the most out of those as opposed to spreading yourself too thin across multiple. YouTube and Substack are my favourites by far! Thanks for reading
Great read Lucy! I am over it. I have added favorites to IG accounts that only post photos, it helps some. Mostly I have been trying to avoid opening the app, because it does suck me in with short videos, even if there is nothing to watch. I haven’t really noticed more images lately. I have notice many of the photographers I follow switched to video.
Carousels perform better because if you scroll past it later it will start you off on photo 2 and so on. Basically if you add the views together from 10 single images it will probably be the same. One of those will get a double tap eventually. I haven’t really noticed notice carousels that are 2 weeks old.
It seems like a new trend is someone sitting or standing there and an arrow that says read caption... I won’t. That defeats the purpose of a video.
I think it has been 2 years since I posted a photo on IG. I keep telling myself to, but what’s the point, no one will even see it.
I have posted a few photos on @thefotoapp. I am liking the app so far, except finding people to follow seems a bit hard.
YouTube is a better place to spend time, watching late night comedy shows, photography channels ;-) and educational videos.
I recently quit smoking, maybe I need to quit instagram too.
Thanks for reading lovely! Well done for quitting smoking that’s a hard habit to kick - now onto the digital audit and culling what is not serving you!
I agree YouTube is my favourite and of course Substack. I’ve never felt like these platforms are trying to hurt me or deceive me and I get so much satisfaction out of them.
Nice one, Lucy. I left Instagram and deleted all my content last November. I'm an amateur photographer; I don't need Instagram, I don't like what it's become and I'm never going back. FB will soon be getting the same treatment. Meta can go and suck Jelly Babies in hell. I'm also filtering out and unsubscribing from any YouTube channels which use terms like "XXXX you must do to improve", "the 5/10 things that are holding you back" and "I did this and it changed EVERYTHING". Utter BS / clickbait. I get why they do it but I have little enough time left on this little, celestial rock and I'm not wasting any more of it feeding either algorithms or egos.
I've never seen much point to short-form video. For me it falls in the useless gap between still imagery (where I can stop and peruse at my own pace if something catches my eye) and longer-form video (where there's enough space for the creator to actually *say* something meaningful and provide useful content worth the time I'll take to watch).
It doesn't help that much of the SFV presented to me by the various platforms is, basically, junk content.
I can sort of see the utility as a teaser for a longer-form video, but I'd actually rather skip the teaser and just go straight to the content.
Well you hit the nail on the head with this one. Consuming short form content literally does feel bad for my health! And I tend to have just an overall better experience with long form videos and static photos. I love to feel like I’m spending time with the person, rather than be bashed over the head with trending sound and flashing images. It kind of shocks me that I’m not alone in this, given how much these platforms historically prioritized short form content. Glad that there are a lot of us looking for more meaningful content and showing up in these spaces!
Meta neatly solved their own issue of grabbing time and attention. Do I need or want a visual drug dealer in my life? Do I want to turn my existence into a shrink–wrapped product? Do I want my quiet photographic work to live in a non–sensical torrent?
Dear Instagram, you appear in my rear view mirror now. Good thing is, as I drive along the road of life, objects in the mirror become smaller and smaller and eventually they disappear.
yes, but I'm saying Quality IN Quantity, aka its no good having a 5 minute video when doing a topic requires 50 minutes to do a good job of it, or splitting it up into segments, just give us the long version.
Amen, we are sick and tired of this "tease" we want thorough and informative content, who cares if its an hour video?, if it means things are NOT time-lapsed, and given due care, showing the subscribers you care about Quality of content, not just a quick gratification and glad to hear that other people hate this too :-) ; PS: I don't hate the 'down the ground glass' videos, like done with hasselblads, they are fun, NOT training or review video's so this is acceptable format for them.
Yes! Love that - quality over quantity always with nearly everything in life!
Insta, X, Threads, Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, Vero, Fotoapp, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, 500px, Glass, ... and on and on ...
Choosing where to focus and put effort, guessing/risking where you will find your crowd is hard! FOMO looms large as well as the thought that I was so close to finding "my" place but missed it by that much 🤏. How many of us have all these apps but only sign in to a few and the rest sit untouched?
Yes it’s hard to keep up. I always say to people to just choose one or two platforms to post on and get the most out of those as opposed to spreading yourself too thin across multiple. YouTube and Substack are my favourites by far! Thanks for reading
Great read Lucy! I am over it. I have added favorites to IG accounts that only post photos, it helps some. Mostly I have been trying to avoid opening the app, because it does suck me in with short videos, even if there is nothing to watch. I haven’t really noticed more images lately. I have notice many of the photographers I follow switched to video.
Carousels perform better because if you scroll past it later it will start you off on photo 2 and so on. Basically if you add the views together from 10 single images it will probably be the same. One of those will get a double tap eventually. I haven’t really noticed notice carousels that are 2 weeks old.
It seems like a new trend is someone sitting or standing there and an arrow that says read caption... I won’t. That defeats the purpose of a video.
I think it has been 2 years since I posted a photo on IG. I keep telling myself to, but what’s the point, no one will even see it.
I have posted a few photos on @thefotoapp. I am liking the app so far, except finding people to follow seems a bit hard.
YouTube is a better place to spend time, watching late night comedy shows, photography channels ;-) and educational videos.
I recently quit smoking, maybe I need to quit instagram too.
Thanks for reading lovely! Well done for quitting smoking that’s a hard habit to kick - now onto the digital audit and culling what is not serving you!
I agree YouTube is my favourite and of course Substack. I’ve never felt like these platforms are trying to hurt me or deceive me and I get so much satisfaction out of them.
Nice one, Lucy. I left Instagram and deleted all my content last November. I'm an amateur photographer; I don't need Instagram, I don't like what it's become and I'm never going back. FB will soon be getting the same treatment. Meta can go and suck Jelly Babies in hell. I'm also filtering out and unsubscribing from any YouTube channels which use terms like "XXXX you must do to improve", "the 5/10 things that are holding you back" and "I did this and it changed EVERYTHING". Utter BS / clickbait. I get why they do it but I have little enough time left on this little, celestial rock and I'm not wasting any more of it feeding either algorithms or egos.
I've never seen much point to short-form video. For me it falls in the useless gap between still imagery (where I can stop and peruse at my own pace if something catches my eye) and longer-form video (where there's enough space for the creator to actually *say* something meaningful and provide useful content worth the time I'll take to watch).
It doesn't help that much of the SFV presented to me by the various platforms is, basically, junk content.
I can sort of see the utility as a teaser for a longer-form video, but I'd actually rather skip the teaser and just go straight to the content.
Well you hit the nail on the head with this one. Consuming short form content literally does feel bad for my health! And I tend to have just an overall better experience with long form videos and static photos. I love to feel like I’m spending time with the person, rather than be bashed over the head with trending sound and flashing images. It kind of shocks me that I’m not alone in this, given how much these platforms historically prioritized short form content. Glad that there are a lot of us looking for more meaningful content and showing up in these spaces!
Meta neatly solved their own issue of grabbing time and attention. Do I need or want a visual drug dealer in my life? Do I want to turn my existence into a shrink–wrapped product? Do I want my quiet photographic work to live in a non–sensical torrent?
Dear Instagram, you appear in my rear view mirror now. Good thing is, as I drive along the road of life, objects in the mirror become smaller and smaller and eventually they disappear.
yes, but I'm saying Quality IN Quantity, aka its no good having a 5 minute video when doing a topic requires 50 minutes to do a good job of it, or splitting it up into segments, just give us the long version.
The medium is the message!...Marshall Mcluhan. From 'Understanding Media', 1960s.