Climbing the Vine

It spread like a virus this week, or a wildfire. Pick your cliche. Like most bloggers, I couldn’t check my Instagram or Twitter stream without a message like “Just joined Vine! I want to see what it’s all about. Follow me!” This would be followed by comments from other bloggers (myself included) saying something like, “OMG! So addictive!” Others, feeling out-of-the-loop would respond with a slightly panicked edge, “What’s Vine?”

Don’t worry. We didn’t know what it was until this week either. No one did. Vine is a video sharing app owned by Twitter. Vine let’s you take quick little 6 second videos that play on a loop, complete with sound. You can stop and start the recording over the length. Think of it as being able to make your own little in-camera edits. In the first week it made it to the top 10 free apps in the Apple App Store.

At first I thought, “Oh no! I can’t handle any more social media in my life!” Granted, my day is chock full of tweets, Facebook status updates and overexposed Instagram selfies. But, I don’t utilize Pinterest like I should. Don’t even get me started on Google+. Do you hear my Klout score dropping?

For some reason I think Vine will work for me. Maybe it’s because I do video all day in my job that I have an innate sense about video. I’ve been meaning to get my vlog on around here, but I think after a full work day of dealing with video, I look forward to simply writing for my blog when I get home. But, Vine works for me. It’s fun. It’s simple. It’s less work than You Tube.

I know some people jumped ship early after somebody got all nasty. I’m assuming it was Chat Roulette style, but I don’t really want to know. I haven’t had anything offensive pop up on my feed, so I’m sticking with it.

Plus, I just really love Harry Potter and have always wanted moving pictures. I feel like Vine is sort of wizard Instagram.

Blogger or not, are you doing Vine? What do you think its value is? (Get ready for the shameless plug.) You can follow me. I’m Somebodys Parent. (No apostrophe allowed on Vine.)

4 Responses to “Climbing the Vine”

LO says:

February 6, 2013 at 10:34 am

I love, love, love your blog! Too cute!

Stopping by from the bloggy moms blog hop and will definitely be stopping back again soon!

Cheers,
LO

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- Amy says:
  
  February 8, 2013 at 1:38 pm
  
  Thanks LO! Nice to have you!
  
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Bethany says:

February 9, 2013 at 8:04 am

I haven’t heard of Vine, but I like Cinemagram for many of the same reasons. The only difference seems to be that Cinemagram doesn’t have sound in its moving images. Also, in Cinemagram, you can manipulate the video so that only one thing moves while the rest of the image is a still.

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- Amy says:
  
  February 9, 2013 at 9:19 pm
  
  Yeah, I never signed up for Cinemagram because there was no sound. I wonder if people will leave it for Vine? Interesting. Are you going to switch?
  
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