Drop those Instagram profiles

I have been on Instagram since day one, I'm a millennial and I'm a software engineer... despite all of my credentials, I still haven't posted anything and still don't understand why it exists. The same goes for Twitter.

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Instagram was fun for a while, but 1. it's a facebook product, and 2. it's the same shit posted over and over.

Twitter is useful for certain topics. I never "got it" until I got in to various things where that was the primary way news was announced.
 
Capt_nickclayton

I mostly just post pics of my cat.


Honestly I've taken a break from FB/IG this winter. Kind needed it for my own mental state. The political crap was just getting to be too much for me. I'll likely get back to it here soon, just cause my ocean season is starting up again.
 
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Honestly I've taken a break from FB/IG this winter. Kind needed it for my own mental state. The political crap was just getting to be too much for me. I'll likely get back to it here soon, just cause my ocean season is starting up again.
Honestly, I probably should, but I think I might have it figured out. I post a little bit of political BS on FB and it has worked wonders on trimming the fat.

IG is all about fishing, with the occasional dose of dog. That's it. Even the pages I follow are predominately fishing pages....plus a handful of close friends. No twitter for me....wifey likes it, I always ask her why and she has yet to give me an acceptable answer (or at least an answer that makes sense).
 
I rarely post on FB, have considered deleting it for quite a while now. I never look at it, as I am sick of the "blessed"/"best husband/father/mother/wife", and political BS. I really only have it to keep in touch with a few friends I wouldn't otherwise (I know, then they probably aren't "real friends"). But since it's not something that takes any of my time I haven't deleted it.

Instagram, while owned by FB (aka the devil), you can actually control pretty well by who you follow and what you like. I don't follow friends just cause I went to college or high school with them or whatever (unless their content is fly fishing/tying). I don't click on any ads or sponsored posts. Besides a few ads, all I see is fly tying (70%ish), fish (25%ish), and scenery (5%ish).

IMO, if you really like tying flies, and like to create flies other than what you can buy in the store bins, you are really missing out by not following (and checking out the content of) the plethora of really creative and awesome fly tyers out there on the gram. There is some really awesome stuff out there, and I get great ideas both technique and material wise from Insta. Plus, I feel like I am sticking it to them by not appeasing their ads with likes, and completely controlling the content that I see, haha!
 
@pnw.river.junkie

I think I follow a few of you on there. I don't post nearly as much as I used to but I've got some half decent bird hunting stuff on there, and the occasional musky or trout if they are good ones.
 
RDB_Rankin
 
I'm not smart enough for IG and Twitter. I go to FB, but only to talk to my daughter. I haven't seen her since she was about 18. She is in her 50's. Long story, and I don't want to tell it. I quit talking politics on FB. I keep putting my own foot up my ass.
 
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I'm retired and I don't have time for all those social mediums. I don't understand how anyone in the workforce or who has a life does.
Easy for me. I have to take breaks, per DOT, and my computer is a tattletale if I don't take them. So I have 50 minutes a day (2 10 minute and one 30) to get online.
 
Mine's the same as my usernamehere. Ski/snowboard/fishing/whales/wildlife/mountains/life crap. IG is what you make of it so I don't care if you don't follow.


@Josh, it looks like those IG embeds still aren't working.
 
20 seconds eventually leads to wasting your time.
I waste enough time with one fishing forum and one hunting forum.
 
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