19 Mobile Things for GPLD: Thing 11: Edit, Save, & Share Photos

Believe it or not, I didn't have Instagram until today. I know Instagram is super popular, but it's just something I hadn't ever put the time into joining. I used my Facebook account to sign up for it ( I didn't want to have to create a separate account), so it brought in all my Facebook friends as potential followers and suggestions for pages I can follow. I would say I was quite startled by how freakishly fast one of my friends followed me. As I played around with the app, I realized, first and foremost, that I had spelled my name incorrectly on my handle, and I also figured out how to make my account private, which was not the default setting.

I don't think I'll use my account much to post photos, but I think I may use Instagram to follow others. I'm now following my sister, a few friends, about 20 Korean celebrities, and Geneva Public Library, of course! Although I succeeded in following the library (due to my perseverance), it took a bit more looking that I would have liked. When I typed in the library's name, the first results were for a location, not an account. Other users must have assigned their pictures the location of Geneva Public Library (District), so those locations, including ours, Ohio, and New York, came up first, and I had to scroll down to the bottom to find our library's account.

For my post for the Library, I took a photo of our teen drawing boxes for the Winter Reading Program and used the Clarendon filter because I felt it made the green pop a bit more.