I've been using Instagram since around 2012. It started as an easy way for me to share some nice photos and captions of my everyday life with distant friends and family. Lately all I really see on Instagram is cheap content-farm posts, and my closests friends and family have left Instagram and don't see my posts anymore, so I've been using it less as well. I've got the email addresses of my closest contacts, so I've considered sending a monthly or quarterly email update to them instead. The biggest thing I miss from Instagram is the ability to quickly edit a mediocre photo and make it a little prettier. It would also be nice to be able to create updates spontaneously and have them batched and only sent out quarterly. This is all possible right now, but the workflow to make it happen has too much friction, so when it comes down to it, I don't end up sending these updates at all.