I've been on Instagram for about a year and a half now with my account http://instagram.com/sunaina_serna_ahluwalia and during that time have grown to love it for the fun, excitement and ability to easily express my thoughts as well as share photographs with the community.
To put it in a nutshell, Instagram is an online photo, video sharing and social
networking service that enables its users to take pics, apply a range of
digital filters to them and then share them on a variety of social networking
services such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. A distinctive feature and one that not even many Instagram users may know about is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images ,
in contrast to the 16:9 aspect
ratio now typically used by mobile device cameras
Oman too has seen an exponential growth of
Instagram users, particularly over the last year and while I don’t have updated
statistics, I can confidently say that the number of Instagram users is growing
by the hour!
In the last week, the Instagram community in
Oman has been buzzing about something that promises to be really exciting and if it
actually succeeds in drawing out the best of the Instagram users here, it would
have been a highly successful, one of a kind experiment that is then guaranteed
to grow by leaps and bounds.
Called Insta8 Oman and to be held at the Opera Galleria adjoining the Royal Opera House, Muscat,this event will have 8
talented speakers from Oman who have been successful in using this medium to
tell a real and meaningful story by using 8 images from their Instagram account.While the selections continue and the date draws closer, I'm one of the lucky people who will be present and cheering as we learn more, participate
more and come away from that evening with some new friendships and a whole lot
of new insights into the Instagram as well as the real lives of the people who
will be attending.
So for all of you who are on Instagram, do
watch this space for more as I update you about my perceptions and experiences of Insta8Oman.
Till then, Happy Instagramming...
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