Okay, so basic features of Instagram. If you already know it, if you already figured it out, you can skip this video and go see the next one, where I'm going to talk about the two basic rules of how to build an Instagram, the ethical way, acid thing the correct way. If not, I'm just going to talk about the basic features. So I'm going to start with the Home tab, which is bottom left corner. So in the home tab, you get the feeds so you get the feed from the accounts you follow. The next step is search.
You can search by people by tags, by photos and by location. And then in the middle. You have the camera app so you can take photos or videos or you can upload From your library, the next one is kind of a notification slash activity log. So if you you get notifications if you somebody like your photos or somebody follow your commented, it's going to be appear they're also on this tab you can check out what all your followings are doing. So people you follow, you can check them out what they are doing, what pictures they like, so that you can check out their activity too. Then the last step, it's basically the home not the home but the mile.
So basically, here is your profile. You have the profile picture and the statistics of how many followers you have, how many you are following how many posts you have, then a short description of 150 characters Next, the bio description it's called, you're allowed just one link on Instagram. That's why it's Different, it's very visual platform. And you're allowed just wanting so you put up a pretty picture, you cannot link it to any third party application or website. That's why it's different. You can put links in the caption, but they are not going to be live.
The only link, live link on Instagram, it's in your bio. So you have to work. Figure out what is your purpose. We're going to talk about that later. Let me continue. So here basically, when you are in your bio, you have like four more options, right under the description and the link.
So basically, the first two are the how you want to view Instagram. You want the pictures to be in like three columns. And you can just scroll down like that or you want just one picture and it appears like Facebook newsfeed and you can scroll down. The third one is photos of you. So basically, if Somebody texts you, the photos are going to appear here. And the last one is a new feature.
They just installed it, I think the last week of 2016, or the very first week of 2017, you can save posts. So just like on Facebook, you can save posts, you can open it up later. And that's about it. Oh yeah, I want to talk about also the settings or options, which is on the top right corner. Basically you you can set up your account how you want it if you want to receive notifications. If you go back to your home tab, you have two more options on the top of the screen.
On the left, you have a little camera, which is which lets you take 10 second videos and post this as a story. Or you can send it directly to somebody. And on the right top of the screen, you will, you will have direct messages so you can direct message your friends and you can receive messages. Also you can receive message requests, just like in Facebook. And that's about it. So if you didn't know this, now you know what were the simple application.
The main focus although is on on the quality of the picture. So it's a photo sharing application. That's how it started. And that is still the main features just to say so because you're not allowed to, to link out so it's basically it's like a photo. So thanks for watching and see you on the next one.