![]() ![]() Back in 2015, the same survey showed Instagram as the preferred social media app among (opens in a new tab) teens, with 33 percent of participants claiming it as their favorite. ![]() A 2021 survey from financial services firm Piper Sandler (opens in a new tab) found that only 22 percent of teenagers said Instagram was their favorite social media platform, coming in third after Snapchat and TikTok. And once you start posting and racking up likes, it's kind of addictive.Īt some point, however, I noticed a change. I've gone through stretches where I deactivate my account or don’t post, but ultimately, if other people are getting attention for posting flattering pictures of themselves then I want that, too. It’s the way I felt about Facebook albums. I even feel embarrassed when I look at other people’s posts. I still do it, but I'm embarrassed when I post. To be clear, I find posting on Instagram mortifying. ![]() I'm no longer in college, and I never open Facebook anymore, but I've watched my former classmates post countless semester-in-review photo dumps that feel oddly reminiscent of my Facebook album days. I'm not the only one who's noticed. Today, photo dumps on Instagram have replaced the Facebook album. A Facebook album was your b-roll of the semester. It was a way to document all of the mundane moments that weren’t Instagram-worthy. You expect someone to go through 50 photos from your sorority’s date party? C'mon. In 2017, I primarily opened Facebook for three things: coordinating with campus organizations in Facebook groups, looking at my college meme page, and posting photo albums at the end of each semester.ĭuring the week before finals, in a tried and true procrastination technique, all my friends would go through their photos from the semester and carefully pick out all the photos that best conveyed "I am having fun in college." Then they would upload them into a Facebook album that was typically titled with a silly, unfunny joke that reflected which year in college they were in, like "Senior Citizen" or "Sophomore Slump."Ī Facebook album was your b-roll of the semester.Īt the time, posting a Facebook album was a little self-involved and cringey. It didn't actually die, but rather, it stopped being a social media platform that young people actually used, which is to say it lost all relevancy. I was a freshman in college when Facebook died. ![]()
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