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Going Public

\n\n\nMost of you know how much I love Instagram and my love for the app is still strong. But not too long after I started actively using my account, I made it private. With social media, I've found that if I have the option to make my account private, I will. I post photos of my husband and other family members who don't want to have photos of their mugs publicly available and I want to respect that. \n\nHowever, there's a social networking aspect to Instagram that just doesn't work as well when your account is private. The majority of the food I cook is from recipes I find on the internet, and I like to be able to give a little shot out or hashtag to those recipe creators when I post a photo of one of their recipes. Unless they're also following me, they may see that I've tagged them somehow, but they won't be able to see the photo, which is kind of a bummer. So I decided to finally create a public Instagram account!\n\nI'm going to try and keep content on the public account different from my other account. Which means that the UGC account may be lots of food photos and maybe a cat or two. The difficult part about this whole scenario is that Instagram doesn't make it easy to switch back and forth between accounts without logging in and out of each account. There's apps that let you switch between accounts for viewing, but not for posting. I may just have to change my posting behavior and not instantly post everything. We'll see how it goes.\n\nThe other reason I did this is because I post to Instagram almost daily. I post to this spot on the web once or twice a month if I'm lucky. So hopefully I can manage to post to the Instagram account that's now connected to this blog...\n\nPlease feel free to follow along!\n\n