What a giant click bait lie. Instagram is far from over. Sure, there's TikTok now aswell, but I've yet to see Instagram get to the "no longer cool/now unnecessary" status like Facebook. At least in those social circles that I frequent, both for private users as for influencers.
8 month old article but here is the archive link: <a href="https://archive.is/lYheS" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/lYheS</a>
This line captures a lot more than just the situation with Instagram...<p>> ...watching the app contort itself into a TikTok copycat that prioritized video and recommended posts over photos from friends...<p>That seems to describe, like, the entire web in the 2020s. I feel like I'm going to be sick just thinking about it.<p>I used to yearn for the "old web" with pages of thoughtful text and a few of the most interesting and relevant photos (I mean, I still do, but I realize that it's largely not coming back). I never thought I'd be yearning for the "old web" of 2010s social networking sites with nothing but photos and captions full of emojis instead of proper punctuation, but here I am.<p>I can't get over how everyone just seems to be watching TV on their "phones" now. Everywhere I go near other humans, I'm listening to half a dozen different videos playing out loud on different phones near me. My Boomer parents and even my own Millenial wife probably watch several <i>hours</i> of suggested Reels or Stories or Shorts or whatever they're called every day. I'm only 37, but I'm feeling like a dinosaur here. How does this end?