When Instagram was finally released for Android last April, I said to myself, let's see what all this hype is about. After all, iOS users LOOOVED Instagram. Must be a "magical" app with tons of cool features I thought. I played with the filters. I did the obligatory food and drinks while I'm out shots. Took pictures of random things. I tagged stuff. I liked people's pics of their food, drinks, random stuff, and dozens, if not hundreds, of self portrait shots. I shared to Facebook and Twitter.
Then I got bored. Fast. Eight months later to be more exact. Maybe I'm not using this right I thought. What else does this thing do?
Having had a Tumblr account for a while, which I recently rebooted, I started asking myself, what does Instagram offer me that Tumblr doesn't already? For those of you unfamiliar with some of Tumblr's goodies, I put this list together:
- You can also follow people, like, and comment on their posts in your stream.
- You can share pictures… and animated gifs, and videos, and quotes, and have your own blog.
- You can also share posts to Facebook and Twitter.
- You can easily re-share posts through the Tumblr reblog feature. It's just like retweeting on Twitter.
- You can upload up to 10 pictures in a photo set if you want to get fancy.
- You can use Tumblr from the web! It's not limited to just your mobile device.
- You can select from hundreds of templates, both free and premium, to customize your Tumblr page, and really give it your own look and feel.
- You can use your own personalized domain so you don't have to have a: myinsertfunnyname.tumblr.com.
- You can also tag your posts with hashtags, and search Tumblr for those hashtags to find similar posts.
- You can have multiple Tumblr pages for different topics or interests under one account and switch between them easily.
- Oh and the mobile app for Tumblr is pretty slick.
Other than built in filters to apply to photos, which I can get through many other mobile apps available out there, I couldn't find any real reason to keep my Instagram account. Tumblr is a much more robust, versatile, and easy to use social platform for image sharing, and anything else I want to share in the moment.
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