Deacon, I've also greatly enjoyed your posts/pictures though I generally only catch them when you post a link here in the group. I had bookmarked your site some time ago but with so many similar blogs/sites going dormant over the years and a general lack of personal time I rarely check those I still have bookmarked on my browser.
I joined Instagram a few years ago as my first and only step into modern social media after successfully holding out on many of it's predecessors (myspace, facebook, for example.) I liked the fact that it was more image based and a very simple format. As others already noted, It's easy enough to use and only needs to be as social as you want it to be. I took the plunge after eventually getting an iPhone and finding some bloggers and/or other webpages of interest were using it more and more often in lieu of the previous formats. Instagram is owned by Facebook's parent co. (not sure when the buyout actually happened) and in the 3 or 4 years I've been using it has experienced many design changes, some of which I personally do not enjoy due to my own tastes, and although it's become a little more complex, it's still fairly simple to use and you could ignore or embrace some of the added content/features as you see fit. A Riv related side note is that before I was an Instagram user, while I had a growing interest in Riv and an increasing infatuation with the quickbeam/simpleone (I'd need a tall 66/68cm QB) I had been again looking through some Riv content and came across a link or reference to their Instagram and heading over to it. While looking at some of their IG posts I came across a previous one announcing they had just found some NOS Quickbeam frames in the warehouse that they were suddenly making available. I 'think' some tall ones were available at that time (and think that may have been when Will also built up his own 68cm?) Anyway, this was one a few similar occurrences where I found I missed out on some info I wish I'd known that had been made available strictly through Instagram and helped give me the push to sign up for it. This example is obviously more of a commercial aspect to it which has continued to grow for smaller, niche markets. Advertisement has also grown to be a large part within IG and last I checked I think I had an advertisement for every 5 posts from users I 'follow' meaning I scroll through 5 posts from users I've requested updates of their content, advertisement, 5 more I actually want to see, advertisement, and so on. There may be ways to restrict it but I haven't had the time or desire to dig through the settings. My short term solution has been to just severely limit my screen time and to essentially eliminate my own contributions. I've barely posted content of my own the past year and stopped participating in the social aspect altogether... I now just observe and haven't 'liked' or 'hearted' aka 'doubleclicked' anyone else pictures or posts, or commented, etc. If/when I have a moment or need a distraction I just scroll through to see what others are doing/working on, etc. and blast past the ads and then go about the rest of my day. You could get as much or as little as you like out of Instagram and it's still easy enough to post your own 'entries.' On Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 9:27:18 AM UTC-5, Jonathan D. wrote: > I second Instagram but will miss the site. You did a great job and I > always enjoy reading it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
