I see that I was tagged as the winner of the Instagram Christmas in July event, and it says to check my DMs on Instagram, but I don't think I can. I don't see any way to do it either on the computer or my phone. I didn't even know Instagram had direct messages. I don't know if this is a feature that isn't supported on Windows Phone, or if I just can't figure it out, but is there some other way to receive my prize? Thanks!
I actually just learned how to do this the other day (thank you, Google). Go to your home screen on your phone, and in the upper right corner is a little inbox icon. Click that and you're good to go. (Super annoying that you can't check it from the computer, btw..)
I don't have any icon like that on my home screen. I checked if there's an update to the app and there's not, so it must not be available on WP yet. :/
Boo.. Here's another article with info.. I didn't see a post date, so not sure how old it is, but it says at the bottom that IG is in beta on Windows phones, so you may be right about that.. http://blog.instagram.com/post/69789416311/instagram-direct
I have the same phone as you and no one ever believes me that DMs aren't native to IG in Windows phones. :|
Instagram is another social media platform, like Facebook, Twitter, and others.... it is basically a photo stream from others you "follow". If you follow some scrapbooking people, I'm sure it's fantastic for scrapping inspiration. I am not active on it hardly at all. My husband loves it to look at motorcycles and meme makers, I guess. He follows a lot of "weird-to-me" profiles.
It's kind of like Twitter for pictures, but you can only post from a smartphone. You can look at pics on the computer, though. I like it for sharing/viewing LOs but also other stuff.
For me, it's a bit redundant. The people I follow on Instagram are the same friends I have on Facebook. Most of those people I follow also post their pictures to Facebook, so I see them there. No need to be on more than one. One is a big enough time suck! Haha. However, I have looked on Instagram when I'm searching for pictures with specific tags... (hashtags). For instance, I load my pics of my pocket letters into Instagram, and tag them with "#happymail" "#snailmail" "#pocketletters" etc.... then I can click on one of those tags, and see all other Instagram pictures that have been tagged with the same thing.
