Subjects and Styles in Instagram Photography (Part 1)

Changing Highbrow Taste: From Snob to Omnivore

In other words: if Google is an information retrieval service, Twitter is for news and links exchange, Facebook is for social communication, and Flickr is for image archiving,
Instagram is for aesthetic visual communication.

Sometimes claims are made based on outstanding exceptions that catch people’s attention, go viral, and easily become a symbol of the whole phenomenon. Yet such symbolic images are not necessarily representative of larger trends