Insta-- what??

A picture used to be worth a thousand words, now it’s worth over one billion dollars. Pictures are used everywhere and every day to show what is happening in someone’s life, daily news, and evenly globally. They impact society’s everyday life in either a positive or negative way, they are used for ads, emotional reactions, and to update families and friends on one’s life. How can society nowadays keep in touch with their close family and friends lives other than reading hundreds of Facebook posts? Kevin Systrom and Michel Krieger envisioned an iPhone/iPad application that could do just that, in March 2010 they chose to focus their multi-featured HTML5 check-in project Burbn on mobile photography which then created Instagram. In this journal blog, Instagram will be dissected and shown how it affects our everyday lives and how it can benefit society.