I was already to make my first post about this week’s bullet journal, but then more pressing issues came forth. Late Tuesday night, Instagram updated and totally ripped off Snapchat that there is no way this wasn’t intentional. I heard about it, rolled my eyes and kind of forgot about until the morning. I fully expected to hate it and rip it to shreds.
…Except, I kind of like it.
On Snapchat, most of my stories consisted of some doodles on a black blank picture. And every single time, I’d always (silently) complain about how few colors there was to choose from, or that there wasn’t even a white to use. Like excuse me, Snapchat, but how do you expect me to draw rainbows and flowers with puffy little clouds. I never said my SnapArt was good, okay. However, Instagram delivered and more. They even added different brush strokes Snapchat couldn’t even dream of having. For that, it’s 1-0 Instagram.
Also on snapchat, I am a huge user of writing over my pictures and if you couldn’t have guessed, I write a lot. So it’s often annoying when I am in the middle of typing a sentence and the
n I hit character limit and have to send an additional snap. With Instagram, the character limit is gone or at the very least you can fill up the whole page with text. The downside to InstaStories is that you cannot change the text color so you’re stuck with boring white. At the end of this round, I’ll call it 1.5-1 Instagram.
At the end of the day, I definitely prefer the aesthetic that Instagram has going on, but Snapchat has a more personal and intimate feel to it. I like how I’m writing this post as if a) my opinion matters and b) I am an active user of either. I haven’t posted on my Instagram in months and the only thing I ever post to my Snapchat story is me lip syncing to various High School Musical songs when I’m super, super bored.
But let me know, are you #TeamInstagram or #TeamSnapchat?
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