Social Media Update #2

Ok so a little while back I went off on this social media rampage. Well I've dabbled a little bit in a couple other areas since then and I still have a love for Instagram, a love/hate relationship with facebook and a love for Google+.

I'm not going to lie I love everything about Google. From their work environment for their employees to their search engine & email service. I am 100% all about Google. I just wish the people that I liked were all on Google+ that way it would be even better than it already is. I mean seriously, it backs up all of my photos from my phone so I can access them anywhere and even put them on my blog with out plugging my phone into the computer. I can easily allow only certain people to see posts that I don't want other people or the public to have access to. There are Google hangouts with allow multiple people to video chat together...it's pretty awesome if you've never tried it! And I also enjoy the communities section of Google+, I currently belong to a Home Decor community and a Mom Blog community...check them out!

Seriously people if you don't use Google+ you should and NO ONE from Google is paying me or asking me to say any of these things.

End story: I will still be on Instagram and Facebook but would prefer to use Google+ and one day maybe only that or at least not Facebook....unless I'm looking for a pick me up and Facebook some people that post way to much drama that makes me feel better about my life :) you know you do it too!

Social Media Update

So I know that it was only yesterday that I went on my rant about social media....don't worry my feelings are still the same! I just realized that I completely left out the other option I am considering switching to instead of Instagram and maybe even Facebook....Google+

I have had a Google+ account since it was in a trial period and I really love it.  My only issue is that not enough of the people I want to see and read about are on it.  So in addition to letting me know if you are on Flickr let me know if you are on Google+ so I can add you to one of my circles.

Love & Hate of Social Media

Social media and I have a love/hate relationship.  I love the fact that I can share things going on in our lives and pictures of our family instantly with our friends and family that live no where near us. But I absolutely hate all the games, spamming and so on that happens on social media. I also can't stand the constant changes in privacy settings...I want my stuff to be private and I only want the people I want to see it.

Ok well what brought this whole post on is that I have been getting really fed up with Instagram lately. Don't get me wrong I love Instagram but it seems that since they sold to Facebook there has been more problems. Half the time my pictures won't load or my news feed won't refresh. I also hate that now when I log on to Facebook I get to look at the same Instagram pictures I just saw in Instagram...it floods my newsfeed with stuff I have already seen. I completely get that putting it on Facebook allows people without Instagram to see your pictures but I still don't have to like it. I also have the same problem with Pintrest...seriously people I really don't need to see every single thing you pin and if I wanted to I would follow you on Pinterest.

So after all of that I have been thinking about switching from Instagram to Flickr. You can follow people just the same but you have the ability to share pictures with certain people that you want to. You can look at the pictures on your phone or you can use your computer. I was also able to upload all of my Instagram pictures & captions to it. And then you can order prints and stuff directly from them. I just signed up for Flickr the other day so I really don't know 100% if I am going to like this better and I am not 100% sure I am ready to give up Instagram but let me know if you are on Flickr so I can follow you.

I apologize if my rant offends any of you, that was not my intention. I am just fed up with the way social media has started to control our lives. If I lived closer to our family I would probably delete my Facebook account...at least until I felt it wasn't something I wasted way too much time on there.

the NEW facebook

Yesterday I got invited to join Google+ so I joined.  For those of you that don't know what Google+ is, it is basically Google's version of Facebook. Don't get me wrong I really like Facebook...especially since moving half way across the country.  However, I am really LOVING Google+!!  It is still new and only available to people that are invited so if you want an invite let me know, I can hook you up with the latest social media trend!  It is so new to me that I can't even begin to explain half of the reasons why I love it...besides the fact that its from Google.  I LOVE Google!!!!  I do know one of the coolest parts of it is that you can video chat with more than one person at the same time CRAZY, I know!! 

I am sure there will be more to come on this as I learn more about it and it gets out of its trial stages.