My Issues with Instagram

     My preferred social media platform is Instagram. I have mentioned that here before. But lately, I found it has gotten so much more difficult to use. 

     Since I do not have a whole lot of free time in my life right now, I do not check it as regularly as I’d like. I end up only checking it about once every week or two. This makes my life just that much more difficult because I like to see each and every post that people I follow post. I don’t want to miss anything, even if I do end up seeing it very late. Earlier today, I was finally checking my main feed after twenty-two days. But I got to pictures from about two weeks ago and then the feed just wouldn’t load any more.  It wasn’t that my WiFi cut out or anything like that. I just reached the bottom of my feed and there was no sign that suggested that the app had any intention of showing me posts from before that. I was kind of mad. I had spent hours trying to look at all the posts I had missed in the past three weeks, but it wasn’t even letting me see all of them. So I had to go to each account’s profile to see their pictures from this missing time frame. Why is there a bottom to my feed? Why doesn’t it just continue forever, just loading a few posts at a time like normal? It is a complete mystery to me. 

     Also, I have noticed that posts in my feed do are not always in chronological order. Sure, they follow a loose chronology, so that you won’t get posts from months ago in between a few posts from yesterday, but a post from five hours ago might show up before a post from three hours ago. I don’t get this either. Is there any purpose to having my posts show up in a somewhat random order? Because I just find it plain annoying and pointless. 

     I really wish Instagram would fix these very annoying issues with their app because overall I quite like it and I think it is vastly superior to other forms of social media.