{"id":18067,"date":"2013-03-20T10:44:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=8861"},"modified":"2013-03-20T10:44:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T17:44:27","slug":"instagram-is-too-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/20\/instagram-is-too-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Instagram Is Too Hard&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ryanhoover.me\/post\/45837577627\/instagram-is-too-hard\">Seriously<\/a>? I must politely say that if you&#8217;re not willing to take a few seconds to think about improving your image &amp; possibly giving it a caption, I likely don&#8217;t need to see it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t accept that simply maximizing active use, consumption, etc. is an unquestionable good. (That&#8217;s how cancers operate.) \u00a0You want quality, and if Instagram further reduced friction (e.g. by enabling batch upload from desktop apps), it would turn into an unwashed Facebook stream.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2013\/02\/does-instagram-make-people-better-photographers.html\">makes me a better photographer<\/a> in that it induces me to slow down <em>just a tiny bit<\/em> &amp; try to craft an image\/caption pair that my audience will like (literally). It&#8217;s an incredibly simple form of gamification, and dang if it doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously? I must politely say that if you&#8217;re not willing to take a few seconds to think about improving your image &amp; possibly giving it a caption, I likely don&#8217;t need to see it. I don&#8217;t accept that simply maximizing active use, consumption, etc. is an unquestionable good. (That&#8217;s how cancers operate.) \u00a0You want quality, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,57,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18067"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}