Get App-y: Instagram friendships go offline and into real world
Today in The Oklahoman’s Life section, I wrote about the recent meetup of Oklahoma City-area users of the social media app Instagram primarily for the iPhone. Below are photos of some of the people who attended.
For more from the users, download the mobile application to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, sign up for an account and search for the keyword “igersokc_instameet,” also known as a “tag.” Look for a Facebook page by the same name to find more. (Note: Links to Instagram photos in this post come from a related online site called Statigram, which lets users see statistics and photos from Instagram.)
For another treat, check out photos that fall under the tag “treecultokc.” Various users have taken photos of a lonely tree in northwest Oklahoma City, edited them in different ways and tagged the tree with that keyword. The tree and the tag have become well known to Instagram users around the world who follow those in Oklahoma City that have photographed it. As of early this morning, there were more than 200 photos of the same tree on the mobile application.
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- Beth Weiss, whose usesr name on the Instagram mobile app is @pernicioustwit, organized the first-ever meetup of Oklahoma City Instagram users. PHOTO BY LILLIE-BETH BRINKMAN, THE OKLAHOMAN
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- Oklahoma City Instagram users Teena Moore (whose username on the mobile application is @teena4), Suzanne Jenkins (@jenkisue), Eric Lyons (@i_like_boring_things), and Kylie Lyons (@kylyons) attended the first-ever local Instagram meetup in downtown Oklahoma City. PHOTO BY LILLIE-BETH BRINKMAN, THE OKLAHOMAN (@lillie_beth_)
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- Before meeting for the first time in downtown Oklahoma City, Cindy Morris, Aubree Hosapple, Beth Weiss and Mary Frantz, from left, only knew each other by their user names (@cindy1962, @aubree42, @pernicioustwit and @momfrantz) on the popular photography social media application Instagram. PHOTO BY LILLIE-BETH BRINKMAN (@lillie_beth), THE OKLAHOMAN
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- Amber Holsapple takes a photo of the Myriad Botannical Gardens during a recent meetup of Oklahoma City users of the photography application Instagram, a mobile app for the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. PHOTO BY LILLIE-BETH BRINKMAN, THE OKLAHOMAN
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- Eric Lyons, Oklahoma City Instagram user and an art teacher at Putnam City West High School, takes a picture with a special filter attached to his iPhone during a recent “Instawalk” among users of the popular photography application for the iPhone. PHOTO BY LILLIE-BETH BRINKMAN, THE OKLAHOMAN
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- Leanna Keathley takes a photo during a recent meetup of users of the popular photography sharing site Instagram. Find her photos and others from the meetup by searching by the keyword “#igersOKC_instameet” using the app for the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. PHOTO BY LILLIE-BETH BRINKMAN, THE OKLAHOMAN.
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- Kylie Lyons takes a photo of Eric Lyons during the first-ever Instagram meetup at the Myriad Botannical Gardens. PHOTO BY LILLIE-BETH BRINKMAN, THE OKLAHOMAN
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- Ella Brinkman, Bennett Brinkman and Ramey Brinkman, photographed in the Myriad Botannical Gadens park after taking photos themselves, attended the meetup of Oklahoma City-area Instagram users, also known as OKC IG-ers. PHOTO BY LILLIE-BETH BRINKMAN (@lillie_beth), THE OKLAHOMAN
~ Lillie-Beth Brinkman (lbrinkman@opubco.com and @lillie_beth on Instagram)
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