There is no need to say your real name on Instagram, and the majority of its users change their real names into amazing nicknames. For example, Alex Greenburg has a funny name on Instagram – BeTheDancer. His occupation and actually way of life is photography. Can you imagine such a name – Dancemomfanedits – but it really exists! And today with Instagram’s new tagging feature it is rather difficult to define who is on your photo. The app loses its functionality when people have to discover their friends on photos. Nicknames can be cool but not always easy to be detected. And 100 million Instagram users have to search!
Facebook, on the contrary, asks to register real names, and the majority of users are interested in indicating their actual names because they want or need to be identified in virtual community via real names. It is especially important for celebrities, brands, politicians, so public users and, of course, businesses, who are interested in their constant promotion. This healthy approach makes your Facebook visibility easier. Honesty helps to except impersonators, who feel themselves lucky in Myspace district, and unaccountability proceed there.
The founders of Instagram app are Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger. They didn’t want to create their users online copies and provide them with meatspace. All Instagram’s idea can be formulated in one word – a smartphonetography. You are asked to give your nickname and name, but it is absolutely clear that you can write some phantom made-up name.
It is good common way when people use their birth names as real names and shortenings of them as their usernames. And there is no problem to indicate their actual first and last names usually. But today there is a strong tendency when users are interested in hiding their identities. They don’t indicate their personal data and use only pseudo anonymous. Though Find Friends feature from Facebook has helped to follow those users.
But now image tagging feature is launched on Instagram, and for indicating someone on your picture you have to tap his or her really existed name or nickname into a type head. You can imagine that it might be rather complicated to define those users who didn’t attach actual names to their accounts.
Instagram is a refreshing and amazing alternative to Facebook. It creates an atmosphere of absolute freedom: you can write what you want, you can say what you want, you can be who you want…And this feeling of being unique attracts people on Instagram. Be a free photographer!
