Do You Instagram?

A while ago, I got it in my head that I’d enjoy playing around with Instagram. So I grabbed the app and tried to set up an account and…my email address was already in use. Which was odd, because I wasn’t the one using it and from what I could find, there wasn’t actually an account using it. So I tried to figure out their tech support (here’s a helpful hint if you do use Instagram: don’t bother trying to figure out their tech support. They don’t actually want to help you. I think the feeling is that if you can’t figure it out, they don’t really want you as a use.) Regardless, after various twisty paths, I was finally able to figure out how to get someone to help fix that problem and got my account set up.

So if you’re an Instagram person, you can follow me here.

But I also have a warning – something I wish I’d known ahead of time, because you can’t unsee things. Don’t click on hashtags on Instagram. Honestly, my first photo was of my morning coffee. Cause I love coffee and the kids had some of their toys on the table, so I set up a little coffee tableau and…it was amusing to me. Then, thinking I’d see what others had done with their coffee, I clicked on the oh-so-innocent coffee hashtag. Um. Wow. Some people need to figure out that if you use a hashtag it’s supposed to have something to do with the picture. (Maybe I’m just not getting what naked people have to do with coffee, but, well…I don’t need to see naked people.)

Lesson learned. I will no longer click on hashtags on Instagram. And I also hereby promise that any photos I post will be family friendly. Cause really.