Migrating from Instagram World

Wow. This is my first ever blog posting.

I started Instagram a few months ago with high expectation of supplementing my existing YouTube channel. I heard that Instagram was where all the artists and designers would gather and meet and interact with the audience.

But it did not take too long to turn out that Instagram is a platform where everybody is fiercely vying to catch a fleeting moment of a crowd moving at a fast pace. There, an image is everything. It is like a giant arcade shopping mall, and every shop that lines up the boulevard puts up their best shot image. If it's not catchy, that's the end of the story. You can't hold the moving crowd for even a minute to tell your story. They move fast and they should do. Further, there is a lot of sleight of hand going on for fake touting of their shops. It's a dizzy place.

Another problem with Instagram is that it is its own world comfortably detached from the outside. You can't post a link to a webpage, a video, a song, a pdf, ... the so-called 'multimedia' sources. Any video there should be less than 10 seconds in length. And that's exactly the nature of Instagram. You have only 10 seconds to sell your thing.

Recently, there was a news article that many young people who are frustrated with the experience in Instagram are migrating to blogging. Blogging has been virtually dead in the shadows of many shiny SNS platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter .... People tried to find refuge in some virtual worlds because they felt the frenzy of the real world dehumanizing. But now people seem to get tired of those virtual worlds moving at a dizzying pace; they are equally dehumanizing.

It is reported in the same news article that young people do blogging to write a diary. It doesn't matter whether other people like to read it. What's important is the writer's experience publishing their stories that will be read by someone sometime. Surprise, huh.

So I begin blogging (I maintain my Instagram account mainly for storing my image works). I don't know how satisfactory this experience would be. But I am quite sure that it is a much better format than Instagram to experience life in the virtual world, without being forced to go through the feeling of the arcade mall frenzy every time I log in.