The wildly popular photo-sharing app, Instagram, has gone through some tweaks and improvements since its release last fall. This time around, the service has added something we all wished was available way back in the beginning – comments and friend management. Now you can edit or delete comments on your Instagram photos, or comments that you’ve written on your friends’ pictures. You know, for those times that you’ll sometimes write, “That’s a totally awesome photo!” and change your mind about it later. And if you happen to find someone bothersome enough to block, you can now do so, too.
In addition to these updates, you can also tag your photos with certain subjects, sort of like Twitter. If you live in New York City, for example, and you happen to be one of the many who are bitching about the snow and taking endless pictures of it, you can probably tag it with something like #Snowmageddon, #Snowpocalypse or #Snowmygod and it will show up in that topic stream. So yeah, it’s exactly like how it works on Twitter and adding the hashtag will add your photo to that particular topic stream.
If you haven’t checked out Instagram and the idea of sharing photos with your friends and total strangers sounds appealing to you, it’s completely free if you want to try it out. The app has grown tremendously since launch, so Instagram is clearly doing something right. Either that or we’re just so desperately in need of an audience that apps like Instagram satiate our desire to over-share.
Not in the mood to broadcast your photos to the entire world? You can make your stream private, but if you really want to keep your photo stream to an exclusive group, give Path a try, too. It doesn’t have all the nifty filters that Instagram has – love or hate them – but it does keep your pictorial life-stream, or “path,” to friends’ eyes only.
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