Is it creepy to follow your grown children? Who do you follow and why. What do you post? Do I need this? All thoughts and opinions welcome!
I follow my grown children, my daughter’s husband, and my son’s girlfriend on Facebook. If any of them were active on Instagram, I would be interested in following them there, too, unless they objected. If there’s a reason why this is creepy, I don’t know what it is.
I follow my kids and their good friends, certainly not all of them. Are you aware of Finsta? Most kids I know have a “Fake Insta” account too. It’s just for the most trusted and close friends.
I follow my kids, but I do not request to follow their friends. I figure they can always request me if they want. I don’t post many pictures to my feed, but instead to my story. Stories last for a day.
Instatgram is much more public than Facebook. You do not have to request permission to follow someone. I follow the kids, their friends, nieces, friends, some celebrities. DD has her dog on Instagram. Using the # leads to to related posts.
^^^ Incorrect. You can make your Instagram private and people have to request to follow you - same as Facebook.
I follow my kids on Instagram. I happen to follow a couple of their friends but probably only those that asked to follow me first - and I felt like I wanted to follow them!
Love Instagram. I also love following favorite bloggers/influencers on Instagram. Their stories always round out my evening. 
I also follow my kids and many of their friends (who have followed me first). Like @abasket I also follow bloggers/influencers and cat instagrams!
I finally gave in and got an Instagram account a short while ago. Of course I picked the day it crashed and I could not figure out why I couldn’t get it set up.
The reason I finally joined was that I am taking a class in Chinese brush painting and many of my fellow students post their work there and/or follow other artists. So now I am following a bunch of artists. My kids are anti-social media. My younger son unfriended me on facebook after he joined the Navy. I don’t think he’s on Instagram. Older son never was on Instagram or facebook in the first place. I think he posts on various tech type forums and a CMU listserv.
The only family I follow on my Instagram are one brother (who posts his pottery and dog photos), a nephew who most posts boats and “no food”, my niece who is currently traveling in Europe.
I also follow some bullet journal related stuff.
That’s good to hear about following your children. I just don’t want them to feel that I’m watching their every move, but I also don’t want to miss out on being part of their current lives. What gave me pause was that I do have to put in a request to follow certain people, so they have to actively approve me.
Only one of my kids ever posts on Instagram so I follow her. Plus my sister, sil, and their kids. I follow a couple of my daughter’s friends. One is a fitness coach with a public profile.
Other than that I follow some meme accounts and a few bloggers. I looked, a very few politicians, only one of which ever posts.
I am sad that Snapchat has kind of fallen by the wayside. We had a family Snapchat that we would post stuff you wouldn’t want on instagram. And when my niece was on her year abroad, 3 am disco snaps from Barcelona. She might or might not have blocked her mom 
My favorite follow, Swiss guard wife. Australian women, married to a Swiss Guard, lives in Vatican City and posts great pictures of Rome.
Also I follow a lot of food related feeds. Local and Michigan. We like to try new places in Ann Arbor and the Detroit area so I follow a couple of Insta’s that are related to those specific areas. It’s great for when we are in town - I can just pull the Instagram feed up and chose what looks good!
We also have a cottage that is a few hours away from home and a totally different living vibe (it’s in Canada) so it’s really fun to follow the “local” places up there and see what is happening event wise and weather wise when we aren’t there!
I rarely use my phone for playing on the internet when I have my iPad. I find having to turn my iPad straight up and down is a pain because it’s in its case that is made for horizontal use, so I rarely look at Instagram. Plus, I find that most people post on both FB and Instagram, so it’s duplicate stuff. I do think that’s where more people are headed though. I have a few friends who just do that now instead. I like all the other stuff on FB, though.
I find Instagram to be MORE private (or at least less cluttered) than Facebook, because you don’t see what all your friends and friends of friends have “liked” or shared. And I have really limited the # of followers I have (many friends not using it anyway.) Many of my college D’s friends have public Facebook pages but private Instagrams. They really don’t use Facebook much anyway. I follow my D on Instagram, but all the juicy stuff that she doesn’t want us older folks to see goes on her finsta (fake insta) account, so she is totally fine with me and other adults following her. I also follow some of her friends that asked me first, and, some of my friends who have known D from birth follow her. My launched S had no interest in Instagram until he had a girlfriend, now he has an account so he can follow her but he never posts anything.
I am a follower of S’s previous girlfriend, who I liked a lot but it’s been over 2 years now and they both have new significant others, so guess it’s time to unfollow her!
Snapchat has not fallen by the wayside with my D, she uses it pretty regularly and we still use it between us and we use it as a family too. Not a lot, but definitely when any of us are traveling or visiting a neat place or restaurant or special event.
I don’t post but I do follow a few people. I follow a young woman who I’ve known her entire life. I follow her business plus her personal. She is very much a blogger. I also follow my nieces and a few friends. One of my D’s posts on occasion and I enjoy seeing her posts. They are mainly about her hobby. My DIL is very active on Instagram and I like to follow her as I know what my S is doing via his wife. I also follow my D’s wedding planner and venue. My S works for a company that has an active instagram account and I also follow that. My S sometimes is involved in the content so it’s nice to see his work.
I follow my D and S and many of my FB friends, but I also like to follow photographers, magazines and bloggers. My new thing is following “organization porn” Beautiful pictures of super organized pantries, closets, junk drawers, etc. It is incredibly inspirational. I would say that a large portion of my Instagram feed is not people I personally know.
Do you all use your phones for Instagram?
Yes
Yep phone. Easier to post from a phone too obviously since that is what you take your photo with.
Can you even post from a computer? I know you can look at Instagram posts, but I think I read that they actually want you to use your phone. The model is sort of take photo, and upload it instantly.
What kind of files can be posted? How do you guys scrub the identifying info from your photo files (such as location and phone ID) if you post from the phone?