Instagram
is a bit of a mystery to me. I have not
played around with it much even after writing about it back in 2012, Instagram
-- Might we use it for genealogy?
And, there are only so many hours in the day, as we often say!
I recently
learned that Instagram now also supports videos. You can now upload up to 15 seconds of video.
Is this
something that our genealogical community can take advantage of?
I did find
where the Duke University Libraries posted Preservation Underground On Instagram about how to properly
remove a book from a bookshelf.
I will say
that I have been “challenged” though to figure out how, via Instagram, you can
tell what is a video vs what is an image?
For example, on the Duke University Libraries Instagram page, this same video
is not jumping out at me?!?!
I think
Instagram videos (which kind of remind me of tweets from twitter in their
brevity) could be a neat way to get little bits of key information out. Sometimes, on YouTube, where we do find many
many genealogically-themed videos, where people have provided more, you want
less. Some topics just don’t need a lot
of time to convey, whereas others do.
Are you
aware of any family history oriented videos which have been posted to
Instagram?
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