Fun & Famous
6 X BEST WEL AAN DE HAND MET INSTAGRAM STORIES
1. Do the Chiara
Do you follow Chiara Ferragni on Snapchat or Instagram? You should definitely do that, because then you’ll completely understand what I mean. I’m analyzing and visualizing a random update from her. She pulls a little with her right mouth corner, tilts her head slightly, blinks a few times with her eyelashes, parts her lips a bit... And... that’s it. No inspiring quote, no smile, nothing, nada. I totally get that this works in the photo. But as the next best movie on your Instagram story? No way. Do you know what’s creepy? This is being copied. This Chiara-Insta-Stories trick is taking over the medium and now I spend about fifty percent of my Instagram time watching ladies who sway their heads from left to right, pucker their lips, and flutter.
2. Time-wise
Social media is (for us) a seriously time-consuming thing. Ha, understatement of the year, ladies. iPhone prosthetics would become a ridiculous success in the editorial office, we are that addicted. But after Snapchat (if you’ve been tempted), you now also have to keep Insta Stories up to date. And for that, you need some serious time management skills. By the way, those Stories aren’t even in my system yet, because I scan for prettiness and suddenly you can also throw less pretty stuff on there. Confused. Confused (yes, for about a month or so).
3. On the move
That you’re filming all the time where you’re walking. I do have a thing for floors (hashtag ihavethisthingwithfloors), but my attention span can’t handle that for an entire Instagram Story. That Moroccan tiled floor you’re walking on is still a, yes, Moroccan tiled floor after ten seconds. And if George Clooney isn’t suddenly lying at your feet with a ring after nine seconds, that floor will never be more interesting than during your first steps.
“Social media is (for us) a seriously time-consuming thing.”
4. Handwriting
Not easy to get those writings over your posts. I practiced for about three hours on my first story, but nope. My Stories are doomed to be typos. I long for those little pens you used to get with phones and tablets, with a rubber tip. Maybe then there’s something nice to scribble.
5. The sound is off
I’m guilty, because nine hundred ninety-nine out of a thousand times I click on ‘remove sound’. A salad with buffalo mozzarella just becomes less mouth-watering when someone is chattering through it or asking you to pass the salt. It’s immediately less appetizing. But when someone else turns off the sound, how annoying. I want to decipher if someone is there, why, what hideous song is playing along with it. EVERYTHING to keep my inner social media junkie satisfied.
6. Your last 24 hours
How, but HOW does Pietje upload the photo I just sent? That can only be live, right? Hello, I’m Adeline and I came out of an egg. But I only found out how to do that forty-eight hours ago. And that makes your life on Insta Stories a lot more pleasant, because we now have twenty-four hours to slap all those filters over a spontaneous photo on your story. Just a little shuffle from top to bottom on your screen and hoppaaa, there are your edited jewels.
