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By Angel Silveira & Elsy Cárdenas

History

Instant camera and telegram = Instagram

• First photo October 6th, 2010

• After 1 week, 2 houndred thousand members

• Hastag introduction, January, 2011

• Bought by Facebook, April, 2011

• Avaibability for Android versions, April 2012

• Videos are allowed, June, 2013

• Instagram direct is released, 2014

• Multiple Photos, 2015

• Instagram stories, 2016

• Self destructing messages, 2017

Statistics

• 700 million as of April 2017

• In October 2016, Instagram Stories reached 100 million active users

• Instagram stories surpassed Snapchat user number with 250 million active users in June 2017

• Instagram was listed among Time's "50 Best Android Applications for 2013" list

• While Instagram has a neutral gender-bias format, 68% of Instagram users are female while 32% are male

Features users can enjoy

Filters

Stories

Insta services

Share multiply platforms

Advantages & disadvantages

• Optimized time to upload content

• Strong security: 2 FA

• Copyright

• Mobile compatibility

• Money incomes

• Edition not allowed in computers

• It can be distracting

• It uses lots of data

• There are not content filters for younger users

• Bad use of info & contacts