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How do I into Instagram?
I finally cracked to social pressure and made an instagram. Never had public facing social media before. What are the etiquettes and best practices I should be following? I hear all this stuff about who liked what, who follows who, and I have no experience.
My broader goal here is to build a good social life in the EDM scene and get a raver gf.
There aren't really any social expectations. I have friends on instagram who post ten stories a day, some have like three posts total, some have artposts but never show their face, etc. Don't reveal any more of your privacy than you feel comfortable with.
If you want to post, take cool shots at shows/raves and put them up either as stories, or as posts with a little comment about how great it was. A big part of your hobby is putting on cool spectacles, it's a natural fit. Tagging the organizers or friends who were with you is a nice touch. Play around a little with stories of food, since that's always safe, so you can figure out how to put text, stickers, tags, etc. on them. If you have cool hobbies outside of raves - cooking, hiking, making stuff, whatever, you can also put them on your stories so people know you're a well-rounded person.
For girls, instagram is better than a number if you're not going to immediately try and date them, since they will post stories you can like or comment on, people appreciate getting wholesome little comments or relevant recommendations in their story replies. Just as an example, about a month ago, I met a girl who I'm not trying to date but would like to be friendly with - last week, she posted she was visiting Portland, and I replied to the story and we had a pleasant chat about places to go in the Oregon wine country. If you're /fit/, don't overplay it on your posts, but you can throw up thirst trap stories whenever there's plausible deniability (I often ask buddies to take pictures of me when I'm dancing shirtless for that reason).
One thing you can do to get better connected and make people like you on Instagram is to promote people's stuff. Is someone you know advertising a show, an event, whatever that appeals to you? Put it on your story. Venues will often follow you back if you do this for their stuff. The flipside of this is that Instagram is a great, and in many scenes, the best way to keep up with what public events are happening, so you may find that an unexpected bonus.
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