- Hey, what's going on guys?
My name is Larry Snow.
In this video I'm going to be showing you
how to post up videos and images
from the mobile web to Instagram
and from the desktop.
So let's get started.
I'm over on the mobile web.
I've already got Instagram loaded in my Chrome browser.
And you'll see here it says, Open in app.
We don't want to do that, we can just tap
this image icon right here, right below that.
My camera icon.
And we have the option to Take Photo
or Photo Library.
I'm gonna go to my Photo Library,
I'm gonna go into Moments.
And there's Nick Nimen.
I took a picture of him the other day.
I'm gonna go to this lovely gentleman.
And you'll notice right off the bat here
that we don't have the same tools we would
if we were in the app itself.
We can't pinch and zoom, we can't add filters,
we can't do any of that stuff.
We only have two options, we can pinch and zoom
with that button, just one way, that's it,
or we can rotate.
I think that looks swell, don't you think?
Then we hit Next.
So when we click to write in our caption,
you'll notice that we don't have the ability
to add in a geo location.
So we can only do certain things
in the mobile web version of Instagram,
but hey, it beats going into the app?
I don't know.
You probably want to go into the app
and do all this stuff.
Where I think it really comes in handy
is when you're on the desktop.
So let's go there now.
I am over on instagram.com, first and last, larrysnow,
if anyone wants to follow me on Instagram.
We all know we could search
and we could discover people,
and we can look at our own people who have followed us
and all that stuff.
That's all the same, right?
We can edit our profile, we can change the links,
whatever we need to do.
We can change our settings here too if we want to,
but now, since Instagram opened it up to the mobile web,
we can kind of I guess cheat a little
in configuring our browser to be a mobile browser.
If you are on Chrome, which is what I use exclusively,
I right click, I go down to Inspect.
And if you're not familiar with this, don't be worried,
you can't break anything.
You want to go down here, in this very little corner here,
it says, Toggle Device Toolbar.
You want to click on that once,
it will put you into a mobile platform.
Then you want to click on that little camera.
We can choose videos or photos from our desktop,
let's pick that one.
I don't even know what it is.
Now you notice, nothing happened.
I don't know if it's a glitch
in the communications between Instagram and Chrome,
but the only thing that is different
is Open in App.
And now, we are able to upload our videos and images
right from the desktop.
We want to click on that little camera icon again.
We'll upload this image of what I don't know.
Oh, lovely picture of our little garden.
And here we have the same functionalities
if we were in the mobile web.
We can only pinch and zoom with one little button,
or we can rotate to our heart's desire.
I'm always on the sideways-view of things.
And then we can click our Next,
and then we can copy and paste,
or typewrite in here whatever we want,
and then we click Share and it will get posted to Instagram.
So there you have it.
So Instagram rolled it out out last week, right, May 8th,
they rolled it out last week.
Since then, I think their growth has exploded.
For whatever reason, most likely,
the availability that you can do this now in a desktop,
which everybody has been clamoring for,
to do it in the desktop, do it in the desktop,
do it in the desktop.
All those markers and social media people,
we do things in the desktop, mostly.
At least I do.
So what do you think?
Is this something you'll be using?
You think you'll be using the desktop mobile version
in Chrome of Instagram?
Or will you stick to your app on your mobile?
Or will you use the mobile web version of Instagram?
I really don't see why you would want to do that,
because the app itself has so many more functions.
And you're in mobile, so I don't know.
Post your comments below what you would do.
Would you use the mobile web version
or would you use the app?
I would use the app.
But I would definitely be doing a lot more
of this stuff on the desktop and be posting it
directly from the desktop.
So let me know what you think.
Hey, thanks for watching, I really appreciate it.
Don't forget to give it a like
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and I'll see you in the next video.
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